"I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and……" — Tom Lehrer
"I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math."
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68 Quotes by Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer has 68 quotes on this site.
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the…
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If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then…
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to…
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In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament,
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I…
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Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody…
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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps…
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the…
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,…
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I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work…
— Bjork
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The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's…
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The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate…
— Sandra Bullock
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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits…
— Buzz Aldrin
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High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year…
— Kyle Chandler
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To think is to practice brain chemistry.
— Deepak Chopra
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You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves:…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off.…
— Les Claypool
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Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the…
— Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work…
— Louis Agassiz
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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