Top 20 Willard Libby Quotes
#1. One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.
Freeman Dyson
#2. I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.
Kevin Nealon
#3. If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
Bryant McGill
#4. And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.
Willard Libby
#5. In this forest of humanity we hate each other more than we love each other. When we will learn to love each other, only then we will see the peace.
Debasish Mridha
#6. You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
Willard Libby
#7. I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.
Kim Gordon
#8. We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
Willard Libby
#9. Has the rain a father ...
What womb brings forth the ice?
- Job: 38
Anne Enright
#10. No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
Margaret Mead
#11. Aware of her beauty and ignorant of her love. Coquettish
Victor Hugo
#12. The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
Willard Libby
#13. I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as Massholes.
Geraldine Brooks
#14. Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.
Rita Mae Brown
#15. There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.
Walter Hill
#16. From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#18. True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Willard F. Libby
#19. People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
Norton Juster
#20. Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
Willard Libby
