Sam Kean
Related SAM KEAN Exactly 100 years after Einstein first explained this effect, we have found a way to make it useful ... GELSOMINA DE STASIO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE AUSTIN GROSSMAN ELLEN HOPKINS Self-discovery is among the greatest of discoveries, like atoms, electrons and neutrons, which canno... RAJ SUTHAR SAM KEAN The air around you is filled with floating atoms, sliding down the Earth's spacetime curve. Atoms fi... CHRISTOPHE GALFARD Spin Coulomb drag results because the motion of spin through the semiconductor is sensitive to colli... JOE ORENSTEIN DADA BHAGWAN Electrons who need electrons, but not people, JACQUES CARRIé These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. Personally, I feel a strong attachm... DON BROWNLEE The more the relationships of the nitrogen-rich substances to the cell nucleus were recognized, the ... ALBRECHT KOSSEL It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbit... CLIFFORD D. SIMAK JOHN LARDNER GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS The jet looks like steam from a high pressure boiler, except when you realize you are looking at a s... DAVID BURROWS STEPHEN RICHARDS ISAAC ASIMOV You're not just looking at shrapnel of the explosion, you're looking at a bubble. It's just this exp... JEFF HESTER C. JOYBELL C. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them; the fas... AHMED ZEWAIL CH5+ has five hydrogen atoms scrambling around a carbon atom that sits at the center. ANNE MCCOY CH5+ has five hydrogen atoms scrambling around a carbon atom that sits at the center. ANNE B. MCCOY We all believed it was a big joke. They went out on a limb and said it was real effect and it might ... WILLIAM MCCURDY A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes. LINDSEY RIETZSCH It's a way to wring the most out of the nuts and bolts and electrons. NIEL GOLIGHTLY BILL BRYSON Fact: You are part Shakespeare. You are part Jack the Ripper. You are part dinosaur. You are part of... ANNE CLENDENING IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE HUGH ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time! T. GILLING LEWIS CARROLL DEMI LOVATO Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still... ALFRED WERNER WERNER HEISENBERG CARL SAGAN If you focus on the negative, you miss all the positive around you. BETTY COVINGTON Every so often, the memory atoms bond with the imagination atoms and something interesting -- a fict... JAMES MORROW HENRY JAMES By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain veloc... JOHANNES STARK SARAH J. MAAS Negativity is a great big dark cloud full of thunder and lightning ,it will rain for ever if you let... GARY F EVANS... Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms... GEORGE M. WHITESIDES BILL BRYSON JOSTEIN GAARDER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Jealousy Is a strange but dark emotion eating at your very inner self if we let it, it will eventual... GARY F EVANS... MATTHEW FOX She gave the party again a nucleus around which it could get united. AMBIKA SONI ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One of the things that lightning does is to remove electrons from the radiation belts. PROFESSOR UMRAN INAN GEORGE WALD JEANETTE CORON These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. All of the atoms in our bodies - th... DON BROWNLEE RICHARD FEYNMAN GEORGE WALD RALPH WALDO EMERSON C. JOYBELL C. STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY They wanted to fire one X-ray photon at a hydrogen molecule, knock both electrons back, and the two ... WILLIAM MCCURDY KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN You can't be around negative energy all day and expect to think positive; eventually the negativity ... TROY GATHERS In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, ... JOHN GRIBBIN Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemis... JOHANNES STARK MANDY HALE C. JOYBELL C. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM If a person is consistently true to his words, then it will not be heard by the most people but by a... ANUJ SOMANY NEIL GAIMAN KAMAL RAVIKANT STEPHEN KING WOLFGANG KETTERLE RALPH WALDO EMERSON When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... RICK RIORDAN KAMAL RAVIKANT HENRY JOHN TEMPLE PALMERSTON C. JOYBELL C. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acc... MARK MANSON JEFF GOODELL
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THOMAS KEAN Hurricane Katrina pointed out continuing serious flaws in our emergency preparedness and response. A... THOMAS KEAN They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may ... THOMAS KEAN The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and ... THOMAS KEAN There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership... THOMAS KEAN Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to ... THOMAS KEAN We must not allow the people who were struck down to simply become statistics. The greatest service ... THOMAS KEAN It scares me a bit that we dismantled the CIA to the point that it now takes five years to rebuild i... THOMAS KEAN All 10 of us have decided to do everything we can, whether it's testimony or lobbying or speaking or... THOMAS KEAN It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened. THOMAS KEAN I think this deal is going to be killed. The question is how much damage is this going to do to us b... THOMAS KEAN There's definitely evidence of strange phenomenon in the world. These are well documented, LESLIE KEAN We can't come up with a reason why this information is being withheld. The government won't even ack... LESLIE KEAN We also had a competition between the males and the females for ice cream at lunch. Many of the kids... JUSTIN KEAN What we'll be doing is helping our management [team] manage better by taking the divisions that have... KEAN REGISTER As an interim city manager, you kind of hold the line until a new city manager is hired. The council... KEAN REGISTER My heart only beats for you but you never listen it SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go SAM Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take th... THOMAS H. KEAN I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. We are safer, but we are not yet safe. That's simply not acceptable. THOMAS H. KEAN We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know th... THOMAS KEAN, JR. In a cool solitude of treesWILLIAM KEAN SEYMOUR SAM WALTON SAM YAGAN SAM HOUSTON SAM KEEN SAM KEEN SAM LEVENSON SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil... SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo... SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha... SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts. SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin... SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never... SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise. SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ... SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot. SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit... SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall... SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the... SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ... SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an... SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct... SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the... SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets. SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going. SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life. SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin... SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never... SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi... SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things. SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i... SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. 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If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of ... 
We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positiv... 
Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos... 
Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus ... 
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a... 
Even if one incurs a loss, he should expose this fact to the other person. This way the intent the o... 
Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it i... 
We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to com... 
Allowing a negative sentence in your head to end itself forms the very nucleus of negative thoughtfo... 
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of... 
People live in fear of bad being out to get them, when in reality, the bad side is there only to be ... 
When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of ... 
It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we no... 
Each element has a characteristic atomic spectrum, due to the absorption and emission of light assoc... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive... 
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure o... 
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put toget... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. 
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The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
It has taken fifteen billion years to get you here. That is scientific fact. We are not just the pro... 
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I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. 
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... 
We Are All Infinite 
Every atom in your body spins and dances
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Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
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I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... 
I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets... 
You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fi... 
Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change ... 
For the world was built in order
Around the atoms march in tune;
Rhyme the pipe, and Time the ... 
Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ... 
Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms. 
He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said. 
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. 
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. 
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what... 
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. 
I like power and I like to use it. 