Wheatstone Quotes

#1. Communication engineering began with Gauss, Wheatstone, and the first telegraphers.

Norbert Wiener

#2. Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.

Mark Frauenfelder

#3. Hold on tightly - let go lightly

Belle De Jour

#4. After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.

Johan Cruijff

#5. I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

Todd Solondz

#6. True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.

David Steindl-Rast

#8. The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.

Bill Cosby

#9. Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

Ashwin Sanghi

#10. This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"

Milton Berle

#11. By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

Wayne Dyer

#12. I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

Eduardo Saverin

#13. Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.

Oliver Goldsmith

#14. Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche