Carl David Anderson quotes

“The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.”
-- Carl David Anderson

Source : "Carl Anderson. Some notes about his life and work at Caltech. The first of a series of biographical sketches of Caltech faculty members". Engineering and Science, Volume 15:1, October 1951.

#Fall Quotes #Dark Quotes #Simple Quotes

“The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.”
-- Carl David Anderson

Source : "Interviewed By Harriett Lyle". Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California, 1979.

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“Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.”
-- Carl David Anderson

Source : Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

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“Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.”
-- Carl David Anderson

Source : Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

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“Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.”
-- Carl David Anderson

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“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.”

“You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string”

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

“In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.”

“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”

“God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.”

“I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.”

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

“There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.”

“George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.”

“Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.”