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Geoffrey West Quotes

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1940

Topics

Science Data Physics Powerful Theory

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.

Community Tradition You Person Know

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

Think Thought Moments You Done Off

Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

Good Passion People Amazing Social

Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

Father Boss Employees Talking Right

I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan.

Know Never Big Going Get Different

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.

Life Freedom Responsibility Value

I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.

Family Today King People Look Play

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Face Stand Someone You Sometimes

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Birthday Food Christmas Never Up

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

People Healthy Know Who

The pope dies, you get another pope.

Dino De Laurentiis

You Get Pope Dies Another

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Sports Loved Jump Ball Curve Shot

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