"I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out and done by people with ideas, people with concepts, people who feel in their bones that they want to go ahead and develop this, that, or the other concept which occurs to them."

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Source : "Portraits in Science". Book by Ann Moyal, 1994.

Mark Oliphant

#Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.”

Source : Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.261, Vintage
“One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.”
“You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.”
“No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs”
“A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time.”
“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”
“Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.”

Source : Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.220, Simon and Schuster
“I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?”

Source : Jayne Ann Krentz (2006). “All Night Long”, p.347, Penguin

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