#orator

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#because #believed #believes #book #collaborator

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#colonies #dominions #go #laboratory #physics

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#beginning #being #center #completely #devoted

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#assist #colleagues #count #everything #human

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#another #around #day #either #get

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#because #found #i #industrial #laboratory

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable! ↗

— Sam Neill

#between #choice #cold #comfortable #dinosaur

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. ↗

— John Pilger

#laboratory #much #vietnam #war

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. ↗

— Emily Post

#believe #conversation #eloquent #exchange #exhibition

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. ↗

— Elihu Root

#countries #country #declaring #everything #extreme