Quotes

“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.” Niels Bohr

“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.” Niels Bohr

“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.” Niels Bohr

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.” Niels Bohr

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” Niels Bohr

“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.” Niels Bohr

“A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.” Niels Bohr

“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” Niels Bohr

“If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.” Niels Bohr

“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.” Niels Bohr

“I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.” Kobe Bryant

“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.” Kobe Bryant

“I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.” Kobe Bryant

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.” Kobe Bryant

“My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.” Kobe Bryant

“There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.” Kobe Bryant

“I'm chasing perfection.” Kobe Bryant

“Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.” Kobe Bryant

“I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.” Kobe Bryant

“The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.” Kobe Bryant

“I'm not the most patient of people.” Kobe Bryant

“If I panic, everyone else panics.” Kobe Bryant

“It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.” Kobe Bryant

“I draw from the crowd a lot.” Kobe Bryant

“We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.” Kobe Bryant

“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.” George Washington Bush

“I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” George Washington Bush

“America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” George Washington Bush

“America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.” George Washington Bush

“On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.” George Washington Bush