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Dan Shechtman Quotes

On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.

Dan Shechtman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: israeli
Birth: January 24, 1941

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Alone April Room Microscope Phase

If there's something really, really bothering me about a script, then I'll say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

Melissa McBride

Me Find Say Answers Something About

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

Stanley Elkin

Long Dying Always Mine Been Concern

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

Star Jones

God You Know Sometimes Catch He

I think it's crucial that we remember the lives of people, not their deaths. Our deaths are not our lives.

Ross Gay

People Think Remember Our I Think

Simple is the only way I can write.

Don Gibson

Simple I Can Way Write Only

We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.

David Shields

Time Judge Trouble Performing Our

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Bruce Jackson

Words War Choices Places Big Made

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Ansel Adams

Possibilities Remember Photograph

I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.

Ava DuVernay

Women World Camera Enjoy Attention

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard P. Feynman

Future Time Responsibility Beginning

I went to see 'Francis Ha,' which I could certainly relate to. She ends up wandering the streets of Paris all alone - something I've ended up doing a number of times in capital cities around Europe.

Kevin Macdonald

Alone Doing Paris She See Europe

I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there.

Kevin Brockmeier

New Fifty Keep Seems Books Discover