Robert Bunsen quotes

“You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]”
-- Robert Bunsen

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“Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.”
-- Robert Bunsen

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“At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the dark lines in the solar spectrum and can produce these lines artificially intensified both in the solar spectrum and in the continuous spectrum of a flame, their position being identical with that of Fraunhofer's lines. Hence the path is opened for the determination of the chemical composition of the Sun and the fixed stars.”
-- Robert Bunsen

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“A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.”
-- Robert Bunsen

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“You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.”
-- Robert Bunsen

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“The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here.”
-- Robert Bunsen

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“There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.”

Source : "Aaron Johnson Talks SAVAGES and KICK-ASS 2; Says Filming Begins This Fall and It'll Be Rated R". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2012.

“There was a little element of feeling like a cow.”

“I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.”

“Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.”

“I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.”

Source : "Aishwarya Rai's post-baby body forces India to confront its attitude to women" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

“With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.”

Source : Interview with Ard Arvin, www.buildering.net. June 4, 2006.

“And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.”

“Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.”

“Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.”

Source : Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

“Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com