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I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science. Lisa Randall
Work Science People More More People Like Getting Interested Really
What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen. Lisa Randall
Me Kind Ideas Makes Scientist Just Different Happen Imaginative
If you are a responsible scientist, you are going to present your new results in a paper, and maybe if, over time, things are established, and it's prime time for the public to hear about it, then you include it in a book. Lisa Randall
Time You Book Paper Responsible About Results Prime Over New Prime Time Scientist Hear Going Maybe Established Public Then Your Include Things Present
I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting. Lisa Randall
Work Myself People Try Thought Think Broad Find About Restrict Implications Ideas Interesting Things
For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength. Louis de Broglie
Natural Light Wavelength Waves Having Only Smaller Idea Crystals Differ Consequence Phenomenon
If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore. Luis Walter Alvarez
Me Game Thought College Sister President Say Weak Out About Had He Disappeared Nobody Knocked Invites Him Because Ball Ball Game Been Conferences Just Anymore Asked
When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors. Martin H. Fischer
Man Balance Smart Doctors Insane Mental He Without Said Lacks
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. Martin H. Fischer
Practice Beginning Diagnosis End
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. Martin H. Fischer
Death Management First Easy Hospital Resurrection French Chef Reform Need
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. Martin H. Fischer
Work Truth Practice Despise Proof Never Lots Laboratory Which Found Things
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. Martin H. Fischer
Good Game Business Mind Research State Has-Been None Been Gamble Necessity
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. Martin H. Fischer
Education Great Poverty Doctors Dirt Got Off Pavement Marble Foundations Floors
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. Martin H. Fischer
Words Men Invent Fail Ideas Whenever
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. Martin Lewis Perl
Poverty Jews Russia Left Escape Families
My parents were determined to move into the middle class. Martin Lewis Perl
Class Parents Determined Were Move Middle Middle Class
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. Martin Lewis Perl
School Parents Immigrants Higher School Teachers Did Regarded Teachers Many Beings
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank. Martin Lewis Perl
School Police Station Parent Had Robbed Police Station Because Child Bank Being Serious
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. Martin Lewis Perl
Today Me World Sometimes Parents Outside Schools Learned Deal Often Hard Painful Early
Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. Martin Lewis Perl
Changed Curriculum Cannot Natures
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. Martin Lewis Perl
Mathematics Me Parents Whatever Boring Talented Course Expected Whether Interesting Languages
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted. Martin Lewis Perl
Work Good Training Sometimes Research Gifted Boring Involve Particularly Parts Because Experimental Which Skills Use Large
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. Martin Lewis Perl
Mathematics History Travel Science Everything Read Fiction Biography
They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports. Martin Lewis Perl
Me Sports Hundred All Americans Percent More Because Were American Being Children Wanted Loved Sensitive Believed Play Played
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set. Martin Lewis Perl
Buy Me Parents Chemistry Willing Also Were Interested Set
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. Martin Lewis Perl
Work Strange Book Back Tell Students Look Learned Equipment Answers Quickly Graduate Graduate Students Measurements Now
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. Martin Lewis Perl
Depression War Good Youth Years Child Fortune Good Fortune
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