"Science is the future of mankind."

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Source : "Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications". Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, September 15, 2008.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

#Mankind Quotes

“Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.”

Source : "My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo". Interview with Om Malik, gigaom.com. Jan 7, 2013.
“I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.”
“The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.”
“Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.”
“Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.”
“What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldnâ€™t make sense to myself, or to the world outside.”
“It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely”
“What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way?”

Source : "Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them". Book by Katherine Martin (p. 268), 1999.

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