"The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists."

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Source : "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

Alan Tower Waterman

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“I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.”
“I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.”
“I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.”
“If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.”

Source : Liz Curtis Higgs (2010). “Here Burns My Candle: A Novel”, p.439, WaterBrook
“Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides. We have done and will continue to do our best to support the persistent implementation of the Genocide Convention. Genocide cannot concern only one people, because it is a crime against humanity.”

Source : Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, www.president.am. February 10, 2010.
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”
“Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didnâ€™t have any power.”
“I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.”

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