Mildred Dresselhaus quotes

“Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.”
-- Mildred Dresselhaus

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“I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.”
-- Mildred Dresselhaus

Source : "Ars interviews Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon". Interview with John Timmer, arstechnica.com. July 30, 2015.

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“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

“Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.”

“When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.”

Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.236, World Scientific

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

“It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation

“Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.”

Source : Adam Sedgwick (1850). “A Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge”, p.45

“American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.”

“We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.”

“I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.”