Quotes
Authors
Ernest Lawrence

"We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile."

Source : Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.

Ernest Lawrence

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“Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.”
“Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.”
“Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants.Â An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then letâ€™s see something to prove it.”
“These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. LittrÃ©, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.”
“If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.”

Source : Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.45, Paladin Press
“You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.”
“With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such dignity - he came not from - as he said - not from hate but from honor, from a sense of his own human dignity. And to me, to my mind, there could be no greater character played.”
“CO2 emissions have been increasing, but the rise in air temperature stopped around 2001. Climate change is due in large part to naturally occurring oscillations.”

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