John Pople Quotes

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

John Pople

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 31, 1925 - March 15, 2004

Topics

FoundReadCalculusCoverDiscarded

So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.

Andrew McCarthy

TimeExperienceMeYoungAlways

You've got to live life to write a book about it.

Andy Williams

LifeLiveLive LifeBookYouWrite

My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.

Jeff Fortenberry

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Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

Michael Dirda

WritingBoringNeverKeepPublishing

It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again? Really? I never set out with that intention.'

Stephen Merchant

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I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Tom Lehrer

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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Robert Delaunay

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You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.

Robert Whittaker

HomeDayFightYouEvery DayKnow

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Ronald Reagan

PeacePeopleFreeChooseWill

I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!

Chiara Ferragni

I CanEverythingCookDishesEither

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

Arnaud Desplechin

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I try to take care of myself, and I lead a healthy lifestyle.

Alice Temperley

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