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When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same. Boris Becker
Life Work My Life Looking Looking Back Edge Big Living Back Kind Admirer Posters Had Him Dean His Child Same James James Dean Room Fascinated
Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next? Boris Becker
Best You World Go Where Next
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc. Bruno Bauer
Art God Freedom Science Important Christianity Worldly Freedom From Also Contrast Children Etc Interests
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Other Mathematicians Shoulders Stand Each
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Science Courage Those Charms Only Reveal Enchanting Go Sublime Who Deeply
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Time Long Long Time Results Had Know How Am Arrive Them
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Reality Space Humility Our Minds We Cannot Must Purely Admit Properties Outside Cannot While Product Prescribe Number
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Work Myself Mind Past Own Meditations Thirty Thirty-Five Would Exactly Entire My Own Almost Content Occupied Praise Praising Years Which Amount
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently. Carl Maria von Weber
Love Music Man Love Is Passion Language Men Feeling Single Changes Ways Though Possible Thousand Thousands Purest Only Color Instance True Feel Most Understood Itself Arts Mankind Who Showing Differently
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play. Carl Orff
Time You Heart Will Beginning Would Find Rather Study Since Liked Mastered Learn Child Children While Them Much Interests Play
At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name. Carl Rakosi
Time Job Thought Few Press Factory Never Name Names Foreign Were Very Get Workers University
A conqueror is always a lover of peace. Carl von Clausewitz
Peace Lover Always Conqueror
War is the province of danger. Carl von Clausewitz
War Danger Province
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. Carl von Clausewitz
War Matter Will Directed Exercise Inanimate
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. Caspar David Friedrich
Inside Only Sees He Also Him Himself Front Should Paint Painter
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. Christian Morgenstern
Art Hidden Able Admiring Rather Simply Participate Than Child Being Wants Viewer
I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Buy Freedom Happy Made Parents Difficult Our Books Postwar Had Support Toys Were Encouraged Times Childhood Children Interesting Happy Childhood Interesting Things Us Much Who Many Things
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Work Animals Something Very Cloning Get Different Required Humans Numbers
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Dreams Me Immediately Followed Around Loved Working Flies Fascinated
I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Women Creativity Intelligence Men Differences Think No Difference Between Likes Passions Women And Men Difference Loves Profound
People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
You Change People Animals Think Changing Everything Genes Like Know Genome Because Methods Cannot Experiments Mean Them Humans
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
War Father Born Architect October Five Children Second
I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes, you can't really do much. You can point out when people discriminate and ask them not to. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
You Science Women People Thought Out Some Given Point Attitudes Am Discriminate Discrimination Often Against Them Ask Asked Much Really Why
In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Government Time Science Women Problem Long Lose Some Husbands Bosses Take Talented Because Occurs Leaves Maternity Encouraged German Get Pregnant Special
For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift. Christoph Martin Wieland
Man Reality Gift Whatever Only
Man blindly works the will of fate. Christoph Martin Wieland
Man Fate Will Blindly Works
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