Gerhard Herzberg Quotes

The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.

Gerhard Herzberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: December 25, 1904 - March 3, 1999

Topics

GoodScienceAccountingInterested

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.

Jimmy Smith

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It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

John Burdett

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The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled 'genetically engineered', the public will shy away and won't take them.

Jeremy Rifkin

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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Sigmund Freud

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I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.

Tory Burch

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You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

Tommy Chong

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We're the party that's fought for increased wages, fought for the union movement, fought to make sure that collective bargaining is not eviscerated, it's strengthened. And when we communicate those messages, we succeed.

Tom Perez

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Trillions of dollars in out-of-control entitlement spending cannot be remedied by cuts in NASA, or even in the entire discretionary budget, defense included. Rather, the financial bleeding needs to be staunched where the hole is and nowhere else.

Robert Zubrin

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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

Allen Tate

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Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

Philipp Meyer

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Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

Phil Gingrey

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Every war has revolutionary justice.

Richard Engel

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