George Placzek famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.
-- George Placzek

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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
Labor is the true standard of value.
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

George Placzek famous quotes

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