Willard Libby famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
-- Willard Libby

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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
-- Willard Libby

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The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
-- Willard Libby

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And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.
-- Willard Libby

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You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
-- Willard Libby

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We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
-- Willard Libby

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Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.
-- Willard Libby

#Children #War #Mean

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

Willard Libby famous quotes

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