Yukawa Quotes & Sayings

I don't give a shit what people call me as long as I can go to sleep at night. — Stephen King

Reality is cruel. All of the naivete is going to be removed. Reality is always changing, and it is always unpredictable. All of the balance is going to be destroyed. — Hideki Yukawa

You're familiar with the P = NP problem, right?" Yukawa asked from behind him. Ishigami looked around. "You're referring to the question of whether or not it is as easy to determine the accuracy of another person's results as it is to solve the problem yourself - or, failing that, how the difference in difficulty compares. It's one of the questions the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a prize to solve. — Keigo Higashino

Do I hear a challenge?" she whispers, "Oh, Carlos. You know I can't resist a challenge. — Simone Elkeles

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing. — Paul R. Ehrlich

I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead. — Al Kaline

You complain and demand zero compromise - so the GOP obstructs Obama so the economy doesn't improve - then you complain and demand even more zero compromise. Then you get to blame Obama for the slow recovery, which is sorta like John Wilkes Booth blaming Lincoln for missing the end of a play. — John Fugelsang

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty ... But I am too busy thinking about myself. — Edith Sitwell

I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand, I am sad when I think how I have become increasingly preoccupied with matters other than study. — Hideki Yukawa

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines. — Hideki Yukawa

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink. — John Madden

Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles! — William Cobbett

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions. — Hideki Yukawa

Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group. — Jared Taylor

Suppose there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands quite well. By comparing them he may come to understand the thing which he could not understand up to that moment. If his understanding turns out to be appropriate and nobody else has ever come to such an understanding, he can claim that his thinking was really creative. — Hideki Yukawa

War is good business Invest your son — Allen Ginsberg