Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 14

There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used.

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

My parents wanted me to stay in England because they love the football here and how the people feel about football. It was important for them, too, that I stayed in the Premier League.

The schedule is tough in tennis.

Music in this film is a very important part.

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

I suddenly had to chase after my pictures... Pictures are like taxis during rush hour - if you're not fast enough, someone else will get there first.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

In 1974/75, I spent a sabbatical year with Professor Vince Jaccarino and Dr. Alan King at the University of California in Santa Barbara to get a taste of nuclear magnetic resonance. We solved a specific problem on the bicritical point of MnF2, their home-base material. We traded experience, NMR, and critical phenomena.

Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.

We Shaqiris are observant Muslims, but we are a long way from everything extreme.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

I wouldn't change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don't. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I'm still not the finished product.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena.

Arsenal were really interested in me for a long time, and I think that I fit into the football Arsenal play.

As a Swiss-Italian who has always worked for foreign banks, there was clearly an element of pride going back to my roots and working for the biggest bank in my country.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

Inter's infrastructure is a shame, to be honest. That such a prestigious club does not find a way to invest in its infrastructure is disappointing.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.

I make sure I have ample sleep, so no late nights out, as sleep is so important for a healthy mind and body.