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Raymond Davis, Jr. Quotes

In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was dedicated to finding peaceful uses for atomic energy.

Raymond Davis, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 14, 1914 - May 31, 2006

Topics

Spring Energy Finding Peaceful Able

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

Joe Manganiello

Feel Mean Kid Pretending Little

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.

John Lasseter

Success Look Skills Because

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Soren Kierkegaard

Strangers Bottom Indifference Lies

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

Siri Hustvedt

Mother I Am Growing Up American Up

I've heard it said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. To that end, I think it's worth noting that the very first police force in America was created as a 'patrol' to keep slave populations under control.

Steve Stoute

History Police Control Think End

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

Lloyd Alexander

School High School Thought Hood Boy

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Donna Tartt

Children Time Lie Child Think You

The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work.

Debbie Stabenow

Work People Reality America Never

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

Claudia Lee

Work Parents Go Say Hollywood Out

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Brian Eno

Pop Even Musician Seriousness Known

To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and one's self-image.

Alissa Quart

American Status Self-Image Social

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

Win Butler

Responsibility Haircut Weird Feel