Femtosecond Quotes & Sayings

To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single image. — Lynsey Addario

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms. — Oscar Wilde

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second. — Ahmed Zewail

Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive. — Alex Lamb

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival. — Dalai Lama

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat. — Neal Boortz

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. — Baruch Spinoza

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space. — Hafez

And the people - confused, embittered, hungry, fearful - will bow their heads and accept the inevitable. They will trade in their freedoms forever for the promise of security today. — Peter Levenda

Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating for. What do you want? — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time. — Ahmed Zewail

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.' — Hamish Linklater

non-Western countries had, until quite recently, highly unreliable legal systems and differing accounting rules. If a foreign trading partner decided to default on its debts, there was little that an investor situated on the other side of the world could do. In the first era of globalization, the solution to this problem was brutally simple but effective: to impose European rule. — Niall Ferguson

Never index your own book. — Kurt Vonnegut