Premature quotes

  • In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.

  • The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

  • Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

  • I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

  • The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.

  • The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.

  • There is so much wonderful stuff and so many amazing people in this world.

  • Living with computers gives funny ideas.

  • I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787. But his Massachusetts constitution was a model for those who thought about stable popular governments, with its separation of powers, its bicameral legislature, its independent judiciary, and its strong executive.

  • I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.