"No-one really thought of fission before its discovery."

-- Lise Meitner

#Discovery Quotes #Fission Quotes

“One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.”
“It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.”
“I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.”
“Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.”
“My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.”

Source : "Q&A: Alex Karpovsky of Girls". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. February 21, 2013.
“The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.”
“Cheer up, children, I am all right.”
“I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.”

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