James Trefil famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time your were an embryo, and will keep on doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents it greatest strength.
-- James Trefil

#Brain #Ability #Embryos
For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves a good history, and I'm happy to say that in this book it has one. The authors present a compelling, nuanced, and richly detailed account of the place from its beginnings to the present.
-- James Trefil

#Book #Fundamentals #Half
The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.
-- James Trefil

#Nature #Taken #Skeletons
Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types engaging in pure thought. They are answered by people who are willing to get down into the trenches and grapple with nature. If that means casting your own telescope mirrors, as Herschel did, so be it.
-- James Trefil

#Mean #Ivory Tower #Mirrors

What a loverâ€™s heart knows let no manâ€™s brain dispute.
You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.
The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
We are all more capable than we think we are.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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