Andrey Kapitsa famous quotes

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  • I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

  • The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ***** begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

  • I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.

  • A camel is a horse designed by committee.

  • The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

  • The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  • Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

  • The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

  • The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros.

  • The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.