Elementary Quotes

282 quotes by 248 authors

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses… — Chris Van Allsburg
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. — Steven Weinberg
I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative… — Murray Gell-Mann
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be… — Henry Hazlitt
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary… — Thomas Frank
Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in… — Piero Ferrucci
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions. — Carl Ludwig
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of… — Sophus Lie
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error… — Anthony Lane
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a… — Edward Witten
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence. — Josemaria Escriva
Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the… — Marta Andreasen
I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some… — Zach Braff
An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things. — Henry Stapp
Divinity is the elementary personality of a human being. When he can stand before corruption and win, that is an undivided personality. It is called… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted… — Daniel Quinn
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string… — Lee Smolin
I've always learned on-the-job, in real time. A problem comes up; I research it, and try to solve it. You can't study to be an… — Tom Szaky

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