"What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist."

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Source : Nobel lecture, 2001.

Karl Barry Sharpless

#Children Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Tables Quotes

“Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.”
“It became the middle finger I couldnâ€™t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.”

Source : Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.284, Macmillan
“The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (1994). “Delhi is Not Far: The Best of Ruskin Bond”, p.263, Penguin Books India
“Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.”
“You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.”
“I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.”
“I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.”
“I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

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