Antoine Henri Becquerel Quotes & Sayings

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

{Commenting on Henri Becquerel's process for extracting metals by voltaic means.} — Michael Faraday

I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it. — Susane Colasanti

While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they're ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite - it's beyond all ways of looking. — Frederick Lenz

My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice." - Newt Scamander — J.K. Rowling

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.' — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real? — Marie Rutkoski

I woke up screaming. Or pretty close to screaming, considering I was still getting over a cold I'd caught from Josh two weeks ago that had left me sounding like a chain-smoker going through puberty. — Mariana Zapata

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill. — Michele Bachmann

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. — Justin Amash

I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies ... — Ernest Rutherford

Laurent fought like he talked. The danger
lay in the way he used his mind: there
was not one thing he did that was not
planned in advance. Yet he was not
predictable, because in this as with
everything he did there were layers of
intent, moments when expected patterns
would suddenly dissolve into something
else. — C.S. Pacat

No one can disagree with the objectives of the legislation that culminated in the 1962 amendments. Of course it is desirable that the public be protected from unsafe and useless drugs. However, it is also desirable that new drug development should be stimulated, and that new drugs should be made available to those who can benefit from them as soon as possible. As is so often the case, one good objective conflicts with other good objectives. Safety and caution in one direction can mean death in another. — Milton Friedman

well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it. — Jim Lewis