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Paul McEuen Quotes

It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

Paul McEuen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1963

Topics

Amazing You Wall Go Nothing Side

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

Jo Brand

Struggle People Feel You Overwhelmed

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

Jessi Klein

Me Picture Go Want Australia Same

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

Jeffrey Sachs

Fun Wait End You Economy Destroyed

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

Tucker Carlson

Nobody Seen Wants Bigot

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Russell Crowe

Courage Grief Patriotism War People

I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.

Mary Beard

Politics Proud Left Would Simply

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

Jay Baruchel

Good Sports Conflict Listening Think

I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.

Domhnall Gleeson

Dream Mine Been Brothers Which Had

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

Bruce Perens

Walk Process Marketing Open Paradigm

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

Bobby Sherman

Business Doing Fans Something Show

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

Annabelle Selldorf

Great You Body Through Room Much

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Allan Bloom

Easy Student Labor Now Become Only