"Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon. In the process one has made four hydrogen atoms into one of helium. The theory, of course, was not made on the railway train from Washington to Ithaca ... It didn't take very long, it took about six weeks, but not even the Trans-Siberian railroad [has] taken that long for its journey."

-- Hans Bethe

#Taken Quotes #Journey Quotes #Hydrogen Atom Quotes

“Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.”
“The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.”
“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.”

Source : "Desire". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. April 2011.
“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
“But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth...”

Source : Interview with "Earth First!" in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.
“Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.”
“I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.”

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