George Andrew Olah famous quotes

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Groups #Research #Able

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Country #Children #War

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Literature #London #Able

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Latin #Reading #School

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Father #Lawyer #My Family

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Summer #Responsibility #Ohio

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Giving Up #Responsibility #Years

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Years #Wife #Able

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.