"Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it."

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Source : "History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics". Book edited by H. B. Newman and T. Ypsilantis,

Chien-Shiung Wu

#Heart Quotes #Old Friends Quotes #Special Quotes

“You canâ€™t win enough, you canâ€™t have enough money, you canâ€™t succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have.”
“One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.”
“I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature who digs himself into the earth and leaves the sight of what is on it to us gaping good-for-nothings. He lives buried in the ground. He builds his monument in a heap of compost. If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: "Good Lord, what humus!"”

Source : Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”
“I knew I was too lateâ€”and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.”
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
“Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....”
“My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.”

Source : "San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime". Interview with Kimberly Marteau Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.”

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