The discovery of variable stars, at this Observatory and elsewhere, has progressed so rapidly during the last five years, that the difficulty of keeping pace in observing and discussing them has become very great. Henrietta Swan Leavitt
The discovery of variable stars, at this Observatory and elsewhere, has progressed so rapidly during the last five years, that the difficulty of keeping pace in observing and discussing them has become very great.
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. Hedy Lamarr
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win. Hedy Lamarr
I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
For a research worker the unforgotten moments of his life are those rare ones which come after years of plodding work, when the veil over natures secret seems suddenly to lift & when what was dark & chaotic appears in a clear & beautiful light & pattern. Gerty Cori
For a research worker the unforgotten moments of his life are those rare ones which come after years of plodding work, when the veil over natures secret seems suddenly to lift & when what was dark & chaotic appears in a clear & beautiful light & pattern.
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike! Gertrude B. Elion
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!
Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery. Gertrude B. Elion
Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery.
Nobody. But your good ideas and the discoveries you have made, cleansed of all that is extraneous to the subject, will still be known and appreciated for many years to come. But why am I trying to advise the lion to eat sugar. Friedrich Wöhler
Nobody. But your good ideas and the discoveries you have made, cleansed of all that is extraneous to the subject, will still be known and appreciated for many years to come. But why am I trying to advise the lion to eat sugar.
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party. Franz Boas
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. Frank Drake
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me.
The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself. Ernst Mayr
The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself.
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. Ernst Mach
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.