Steinberger Quotes & Sayings

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains. — Takeda Nobushige

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors. — Jack Steinberger

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools. — Jack Steinberger

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. — Jack Steinberger

She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki
"You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn — Amanda Hocking

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. — Jack Steinberger

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. — Jack Steinberger

You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?' — Joe Torre

I pay for results. — Anne M. Evans

There is no promise in the world that is okay to break. — Choi Woo-shik

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past. — Mal Peet

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. — Jack Steinberger

I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered.
Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied. — Brandon Mull

If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she doesn't have to go out and hunt for food for herself. — Isabella Rossellini

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business. — Jack Steinberger

I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense. — James Ellroy

Who's in Charge Here? When a congregation is profoundly clergy-centered - when the pedagogy consists of a clergyperson (performer) downloading information and inspiration to parishioners (audience) - the game is rigged. The theological message may be one of community, but the lived experience is one of dependence on an authority. Under those conditions, not much can be done to build the communal trust that allows compassion to flower, no matter how benign the leader is. — Parker J. Palmer

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize ... I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature. — Jack Steinberger

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. — Jack Steinberger

When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will. — Justin Trudeau

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation. — Jack Steinberger

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well. — Warren Zevon

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. — Jack Steinberger

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. — Jack Steinberger

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. — Jack Steinberger

[ ... ]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard. — David Platt