"Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships."

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Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 148), 1991.

Stanislaw Ulam

#Feelings Quotes #Dozen Quotes #Radiation Quotes

“A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.”
“If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change”
“The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.”
“When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.”
“Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.”
“Everyone is going to prang out at some point. I don't worry about that stuff too much because most things can be sorted out with a chat, a cup of tea and an arm wrestle.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2001). “Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel”, p.278, Random House
“When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.”

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