Eric Cornell Quotes & Sayings

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. — Eric Allin Cornell

Money grows on sweat, not trees. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell

Eric Helzer and David Pizarro asked students at Cornell University to fill out surveys about their political attitudes while standing near (or far from) a hand sanitizer dispenser. Those told to stand near the sanitizer became temporarily more conservative.27 — Jonathan Haidt

She often had a temper that made a PMS-ing harpy going into nicotine withdrawal look like a chubby fuzzy bunny that burped daisies and shot rainbows out its ass. — Amy Lane

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. — Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. — Eric Allin Cornell

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read. — Eric Allin Cornell

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back. — Eric Allin Cornell

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference. — Helen Keller

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later. — Eric Allin Cornell

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. — Eric Allin Cornell

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell

What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages. — China Mieville

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. — Eric Allin Cornell

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. — Eric Allin Cornell

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. — Eric Allin Cornell

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. — Eric Allin Cornell

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. — Eric Allin Cornell

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. — Eric Allin Cornell

Open up the full capacity of the heart and mind. — Steven Redhead

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. — Eric Allin Cornell

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. — Eric Allin Cornell

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example ... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad? — Eric Allin Cornell

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. — Eric Allin Cornell

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. — Eric Allin Cornell

She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill zone even while firing guns from both hands during a cartwheel.
"You look fucking ridiculous," she told herself. — Jonathan Maberry

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. — Eric Allin Cornell