"To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit."

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Irving Langmuir

#Home Quotes #Awards Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.”
“We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.”
“There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.”
“The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.”
“The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.”
“To begin with, I don't have any stage fright”
“Love was like a toothache.”
“I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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