Fleischmann Quotes & Sayings

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely. — Martin Fleischmann

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it. — Martin Fleischmann

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language. — George Carlin

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret. — Martin Fleischmann

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been. — Martin Fleischmann

Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall. — Barack Obama

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music. — Dan Fogelberg

everyone from has an inner voice and i found a way to get mine out — Carly Fleischmann

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid. — Martin Fleischmann

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection. — Martin Fleischmann

Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around. — Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous. — Martin Fleischmann

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars. — Martin Fleischmann

Today the apologists of socialism are forced to distort facts and to misrepresent the manifest meaning of words when they want to make people believe in the compatibility of socialism and freedom. — Ludwig Von Mises

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work. — Martin Fleischmann

So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research. — Martin Fleischmann

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else. — Martin Fleischmann

I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks. — Mitt Romney

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature. — Martin Fleischmann

If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences. — Martin Fleischmann

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing. — Martin Fleischmann

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer. — Stephen Hawking

I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider. — Cassandra Clare

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really. — Martin Fleischmann

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. — Martin Fleischmann

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable. — Martin Fleischmann

Carly grabbed at Howard, who was in the driver's seat, while she was buckled in behind him. She flopped back in the seat of the car over and over, screaming and crying, throwing herself hard against the constraints of the safety belt. "What's wrong? What's going on?" they asked over and over. When they finally arrived at Barb's several minutes later and turned off the car, Carly calmed sufficiently to respond. "You need a seat belt," Carly observed. Sheepishly, Howard acknowledged he hadn't fastened his when leaving our house. — Arthur Fleischmann

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward. — Martin Fleischmann

Women, when they are old enough to have done with the business of being women, and can let loose their strength, must be the most powerful creatures in the world. — Isak Denisen

Neither sad nor gay is the desert - a boundless waste of sand under a burning waste of sky. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding. — Martin Fleischmann

At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past. — Martin Fleischmann

The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode. — Giles Duley

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium. — Martin Fleischmann

A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Though the world might praise him and say he had really found something, he would look unconcerned and never turn his head; though the world might condemn him and say he had lost something, he would look serene and pay no heed. The praise and blame of the world are no loss or gain to him. — Zhuangzi