"Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough."

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Source : "Biographical Memoirs V.83" by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, National Academies Press, (p. 203), 2003.

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

“It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.”
“Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.”
“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”

Source : Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"
“You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.”
“Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.”
“The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.”
“Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.”
“I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.”

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