Rainer Weiss Quotes

Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, 'This is so tiny that it will never have any influence on anything, and nobody can measure it.' And when you think about the times and the technology in 1916, he was probably right.

Rainer Weiss

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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Jim Rohn

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I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

Jo Brand

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

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I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

Steve Sabol

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I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.

Tommy Ramone

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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Tom Clancy

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'Forbes' has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.

Michael Perlis

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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

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South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

Jay Weatherill

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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

Dick Cavett

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American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in this vast nation. That's my mandate.

Debra Granik

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My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

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