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John Polanyi Quotes

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: January 23, 1929

Topics

Knowledge Power Responsibility Rest

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Jerome K. Jerome

Life Sad Fun Joy Me Sadness

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.

Tree Direction High Low Level Our

It took me a little while to get sorrow under the belt enough to understand country music's lyrics and strengths.

Shooter Jennings

Music Me Enough Country Understand

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

Life Growth Live Start Rest Think

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

Environmental Think Important Act

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Faith Best Oneself Course Safest

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

Monica Lewinsky

Change People Me Opinion Think Stop

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Job Start Book Think Thinking Know

What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dean Bakopoulos

Writing Institution Arts Thrill

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

Life Man Think Loved My Life He

'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

American America White Immigrants

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

William J. Mann

Identity Writing Through Like Even

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