Pieter Zeeman Quotes

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

Pieter Zeeman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: May 25, 1865 - October 9, 1943

Topics

WorkGreatMyselfPastI AmMe

As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

AgeMemoriesBuildingTryingFind

They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you wrote a musical, they would fully fund it and put it on the main stage with full costumes and a set and everything, and my roommate said we should totally do that.

Andrew Sean Greer

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On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.

Robert Peel

OpportunityDayEveningWednesday

Entertainment works by withholding content with the purpose of increasing its value. And, when you think about it, those two are just vastly different approaches, but they can be bridged.

Robert Kyncl

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You get people coming up to you and asking about movies, especially in Chennai, which is nice.

Amy Jackson

PeopleYouNiceMoviesUpAsking

I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.

Amitava Kumar

MeYouthReadingThinkPrettySaved

The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.

Steven Levy

SchoolFunNewFirstContentMiddle

The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.

Robert Zubrin

GovernmentWorldAutomobileCompany

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.

Ruth B

HomeMusicLonelinessMeFreeYou

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Mike McCurry

OrganizationHouseWhiteFirstHuge

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

Judith Butler

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I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.

Jay Mohr

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