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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

"Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other."

Source : Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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“I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.”
“As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long,”

Source : "Mirza hits back for modern Muslims" by Robert Philip, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 01, 2007.
“As for America and the rest of European world, I want to live in a nation that reflects my traditions and values, and I do not want my people to become a minority in the nations my own forefathers built. Interestingly, that is same goal that most Israelis and most Jews who support Israel endorse for the Jewish state.”
“You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.”
“Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.”
“Criticism is a life without risk.”
“If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.”
“For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.”

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