Richard Smalley Quotes

Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

Richard Smalley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 6, 1943 - October 28, 2005

Topics

BeautyLiveGreatSpaceInteresting

We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.

Jim Lovell

HopeTimeJobKingPeopleMoon

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

John Shirley

NatureEmpathyWayOpinionatedToo

I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I'm completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.

Amy Jackson

IndiaNowMoviesFocusedOver

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

Stephen Curry

YouFastI CanPlayHurryPoint

The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.

Travis Fimmel

BeautifulOceanBeautiful PlacePlace

I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.

Ron Wyden

BestThoughtCareBetterPatient

One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

Miriam Margolyes

LiveHouseDownStairsRunWorst

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Luis Gutierrez

HealthDataYearPrivacyRightUp

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

Louis Dudek

LongBoringSharpPoemElements

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Joseph Cook

MyselfBestWifeLikeRelations

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

Dominique Moceanu

LifeBetterHealthyMoreNeedElite

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

Diablo Cody

PageKnowHollywoodWriteSeeGone

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Richard Smalley