This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
Cost | Excitement | Present | Words |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Well the lawyers of the. American Bar Association convention are leaving us. Think they had a good time. Like all conventions, they didn't do a thing. No convention ever did anything. If this country ever becomes civilized the first thing eliminated would be people gadding around to get to a convention. And the humorous thing about `em is they always wait and hold `em in the hottest weather. Convention slogans should be, Let's meet and perspire together.
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different.
Absolute | Existence | Experience | Past | Reason | Regard | Respect | Space | Will | Words | World | Respect |
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.
Language | Mathematics | Will | Words |
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
The smallest particles of matter were said [by Plato] to be right-angled triangles which, after combining in pairs ... joined together into the regular bodies of solid geometry; cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons and icosahedrons. These four bodies were said to be the building blocks of the four elements, earth, fire, air and water ... [The] whole thing seemed to be wild speculation. ... Even so, I was enthralled by the idea that the smallest particles of matter must reduce to some mathematical form ... The most important result of it all, perhaps, was the conviction that, in order to interpret the material world we need to know something about its smallest parts. [Recalling how as a teenager at school, he found Plato's Timaeus to be a memorable poetic and beautiful view of atoms.]
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Duality | Language | Mathematics | Will | Words |
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.
Enough | Life | Life | Tears | Television |