Robert Kirshner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.
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Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.
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Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence.
-- Robert Kirshner
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His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
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Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,
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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
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Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
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I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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