Jansky Quotes & Sayings

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself. — Chelsea Handler

In her right hand the lily, in her left
The letter--all her bright hair streaming down--
And all the coverlid was cloth of gold
Drawn to her waist, and she herself in white
All but her face, and that clear-featured face
Was lovely, for she did not seem as dead,
But fast asleep, and lay as though she smiled. — Alfred Tennyson

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. — Christopher Lasch

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being. — Abdolkarim Soroush

We are better than our culture. Load us down with prejudice, equip us with indifference, and we will nevertheless, at the critical moment, cast the nonsense aside and find our true selves. — Jack McDevitt

He had been hurt doing everything he had ever done. He expected it, even wanted it. Nothing centered a man like pain. Nothing drove the irrelevant bullshit our of your mind like the taste of your own blood. Duffy always wanted to tell people who were worried about the future of their children, or about God and the order of the universe, to go out and break a rib or two. A few broken ribs threw all thoughts of children, God and the order of the universe right out the window. Nobody with broken ribs ever had free-floating anxiety, or so Duffy was convinced. It was cheaper that a psychiatrist and never so humiliating. — Harry Crews

In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of his equipment facilities. If greater progress were to be made it would be necessary to construct new and different equipment especially designed to measure the cosmic static. — Grote Reber

Wait for me somewhere between reality and all we've ever dreamed. — Peter Pan

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. — Jayson Blair

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified. — Confucius

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark. — John Berger

Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great. — Winifred Holtby

Don't let something like the simple word "No" stop you from doing anything! — Wendy Noriega-Quintana

Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people. — Dan Gilroy

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky in 1933. — Honor Harger