Quasicrystals Quotes & Sayings

Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen. — Dan Shechtman

Drugs made me feel more normal. — Carrie Fisher

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth. — Robert Browning

A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.' — Dana Carvey

And as for me, though that I konne but lyte,
On bokes for to rede I me delyte,
And to hem yive I feyth and ful credence,
And in myn herte have hem in reverence
So hertely, that ther is game noon
That fro my bokes maketh me to goon,
But yt be seldom on the holyday,
Save, certeynly, whan that the month of May
Is comen, and that I here the foules synge,
And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge,
Farewel my bok and my devocioun! — Geoffrey Chaucer

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. — William Shakespeare

The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech. — George T. Delacorte Jr.

The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances. — Thomas Pynchon

Unquestionably, victory or defeat in war is determined mainly by the military, political, economic and natural conditions on both sides. But not by these alone. It is also determined by each side's subjective ability in directing the war. — Mao Zedong