Birkeland Quotes & Sayings

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary ... and this assumption is untenable. — Arthur Schuster

Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup. — Nancy Kress

It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. — Kristian Birkeland

Life is a game. Either you win or lose. Never allow the fear of losing prevent you from entering the game. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep focusing on God and all things will work out. — Ray S. Jones

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. — Dejan Stojanovic

Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, "often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination - by starvation and uneven combat" as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94 — James W. Loewen

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural. — John Piper

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego. — Janis Birkeland

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating. — Juliette Binoche

A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited ... they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work. — Kristian Birkeland

The dust of my dreams swim spiced incense smoke. — Cameron Conaway

Democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I find it to be an ongoing challenge to keep the guitar from becoming too traditional. — Edge

There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out. — Ken Follett

Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic. — N. Murray Edwards

4. Radicalism of forms. If a new model once created meets with much success on account of its greater efficiency than its predecessor, it lends certain neighbouring forms a formal radicalism, which attempts to borrow from the appearance of the new form: for example, bronze tools that had reached the furthest development of their utility had a disastrous influence on stone tools, warping them toward an elegance that could only be attained in bronze. Today aviation has imposed its aerodynamic forms even on baby strollers and irons. This radicalism of forms is a result of the fact that people become bored when they do not find some unexpected element in the familiar. This radicalism might seem illogical, as the advocates of standardization believe, but we must not forget that discovery is only made possible by this need of humanity. — Tom McDonough