Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France. — Humphry Davy
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. — Voltaire
One man gathers what another man spills — Robert Hunter
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert. — Ludwig Boltzmann
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur. — Georgius Agricola
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. — Albert Einstein
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. — Carl Linnaeus
Short Jacques Quotes
Here I go, deep type flow,
Jacques Cousteau could never get this low. — Ol' Dirty Bastard
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. — Isadora Duncan
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. — Norman McLaren
It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic. — Curt Weldon
Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat. — Ian Botham
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques. — Charles Dickens
Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it. — Rick Perlstein
You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen? — Victor Borge
When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. — Terry Eagleton
Jacques Image Quotes
Jean Jacques Quotes
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason. — Jacques-Louis David
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Michel Houellebecq
In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making. — Francis Marion Crawford
There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses." — Edwidge Danticat
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity . . . may become a star! — Daniel J. Boorstin
Jacqueline Quotes
My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.' — Ariel Winter
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. — Yo-Yo Ma
Anushka Sharma is a dear friend; as is Jacqueline Fernandez. They always stand by me for support when it’s needed — Sonam Kapoor
i love girls under pressure but wouldn't recommend it to people who are under 10. i read it at the age of nine but my sister told me the bit u should never do. all in all, i loved this book and any jacqueline wilson fans over 10 i would recommend it to! — Jacqueline Wilson
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car. — Abraham Zapruder
I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood. — Jacqueline Wilson
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. — John F. Kennedy
I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. — John F. Kennedy
I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. — Paul Getty
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly. — Barry Goldwater
Jacob Quotes
Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim — Julius Malema
He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse. — Stephenie Meyer
Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are innovators; fashion inventors; artists who create. — Bernard Arnault
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon — Stephenie Meyer
But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own. — Izaak Walton
This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be. — Kristen Stewart
There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen — Stephenie Meyer
Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV. — Stephenie Meyer
As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent. — Stephenie Meyer
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles. — Brigham Young
French economist Jacques Reuff coined the phrase “deficit without tears to describe the new economic reality that the United States inhabited, where it could purchase whatever it wanted from the world and finance it through debt monetized by inflating the currency that the entire world used. — Saifedean Ammous
People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody. — Vincent Cassel
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food. — Jacques Pepin
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen. — Walid Jumblatt
See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal. — Steve Irwin
When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso. — Enric Sala
When I signed this past summer, Lou Lamoriello, Jacques Lemaire, and I agreed that if we were unable to find a suitable fit in which I would be able to compete and contribute at the level I expect from myself, then I would simply step aside. — Brendan Shanahan
My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a passage in Jacques Pépin's autobiography (The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen) in which he describes prying snails from the terrace of his vacation home and cooking them up for dinner. — Debra Hamel
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real. — Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero. — Enric Sala
Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed. — Steve Albini
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights. — Roger Ebert
I stole a shirt off Jacques (Kallis) and a pullover off Harry (Paul Harris) that still had his hamburger stain on the front left side of it. — Graeme Smith
[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have
learned more about the history of
baseball, true history, than from
anything I have ever read or heard
about. [It's] research and documentation
clarifies so many of the personalities
and events that took place before 'my
time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's
quote: 'Whoever would know the heart
and mind of America had better learn
baseball' should be supplanted by [this]
biography of Landis. — Ralph Kiner
...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets. — Arthur Rimbaud
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. — Emmanuelle Beart
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD. — David Kay
I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking. — Anthony Bourdain
People are more familiar with pictures of Jacques Mesrine that had been taken of him at the end of his life, when he was doing a lot of things with the media. So there's an iconic figure that people know, and I had to eventually get there; otherwise I guess the audience would have been disappointed. My only problem is that I'm a skinny guy, and it's very hard for me to put on weight. — Vincent Cassel
When I was in college, it was Jacques Derrida. Everyone was dropping quotes. I remember thinking that was important - and I don't say that it's not now - but we're just living our lives. I don't have time to think about that. — Fernando Mastrangelo
Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went through "storms," as the Jacques Brel song says. But if there's one area where we never had the slightest disagreement, it was art. Never. Not once. Not about painting, not about opera, not about theater. We were always in complete communion. Of course, that's how all of the collection came into being. — Pierre Berge
Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty. — Ines de La Fressange
Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, [Alexander] Archipenko and things of that sort, [Jacques] Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated their style. — Warren MacKenzie
I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior year, made some progress as a 16 year-old classical saxophone player. But not really... not like how the legit cats do. But I love the [Jacques] Ibert, love [Alexander] Glazunov, love the [Paul] Creston. — Jon Gordon
[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what he thought was the unfair criticism of the American state constitutions made by the French philosophers, especially [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot. — Gordon S. Wood
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs. — Nina Simone
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in the early-to-mid 20th century. In the film, they're both guided by Karamakate, as a young man early in the story and later as an old shaman. He and the outsiders share a desire for knowledge - self knowledge and an understanding of the world around them, says the film's co-screenwriter, Jacques Toulemonde. — Tom Cole
You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy. — Al Madrigal
It’s funny, I started by making fake American movies, The Transporter and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies. — Louis Leterrier
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. — E. E. cummings
Lots of guys don't like Jacques Plante, but he has been good to me. He's always by himself, you know, and how can you hate a guy when you never see him? — Bernie Parent
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