Makoto Kikuchi Quotes & Sayings

The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the experimental data, plotting them in different ways, and looking for interconnections. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer

What shall I take with me?
Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs. — Nezahualcoyotl

Life is an experimental field. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fathers who initiate their sons' first sexual experiences by taking them to prostitutes might as well deal them a crack pipe. — Birgit Waldschmidt

You Never Have a Second Chance for a First Good Impression — Doris-Maria Heilmann

Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa. — Harold Macmillan