Dudley R. Herschbach famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.
-- Dudley R. Herschbach
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Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
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A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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You know what shows today are missing? Stars.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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