Crystallographer Quotes & Sayings

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty. — Dorothea Lange

My king?"

"Yes, my queen?"

"Take me home. — Melina Marchetta

This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they speak of a social order that is possible on the basis of an ordering within the individual self. — Jacob Needleman

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them. — J. D. Bernal

You're hot, I'll give you that, but you kind of ruin it when you open your mouth. — Nyrae Dawn

These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols. Most items only cost a few credits, but since they cost nothing for GSS to manufacture, it was all profit. — Ernest Cline

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. — Arthur Rock

There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born ...
Thus, to know humanity,
understand earth.
To know earth,
understand heaven.
To know heaven,
understand the Way.
To know the Way,
understand the great within yourself. — Wayne W. Dyer

If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader. — James C. Collins

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. — Virginia Woolf

Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows? — Ernest Hemingway,

Poetry can be more eloquent than the most eloquent sermons, and it becomes a weapon more formidable than the sharpest of swords; whenever such a poem--which finds its correct tune and conveys the excitement of the heart--rings out, all the miserable, heaped drifts of words fly for shelter and bury themselves in ashamed silence. Whenever such a sword of poetry is drawn from its scabbard, all the false princes of words, who have set their thrones on a void, are thwarted and retreat into seclusion. — M. Fethullah Gulen

My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us. — A.R. Rahman