Emilio G. Segre quotes

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.
-- Emilio G. Segre

#Political #Matter #Lasts

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.
-- Emilio G. Segre

#Might #Different #Nuclear

In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.
-- Emilio G. Segre

#Ideas #Two #Differences

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.
-- Emilio G. Segre

#Mother #Science #Chinese

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

No matter where I am, I will always be there when you need me.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.