Anthony James Leggett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.
-- Anthony James Leggett

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Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.
-- Anthony James Leggett

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There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.
-- Anthony James Leggett

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Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.
The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Anthony James Leggett famous quotes

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