Emilio G. Segre quotes
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“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.”
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“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. SegreSource : "Enrico Fermi: Physicist". Book by Emilio G. Segre (p. 149), 1970.
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“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. SegreSource : Epigraph by Emilio G. Segre in Richard Rhodes' book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (p. 8), 1986.
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“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.”
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“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
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Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
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“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.”
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“No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives”
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“No matter where I am, I will always be there when you need me.”
Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.101, Simon and Schuster
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“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”
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“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”
Source : "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", 1969.
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“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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