Rainer Weiss The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn’t know much about them at all, and for the life of me, I could not understand how a bar interacts with a gravitational wave. – Rainer Weiss Bar Quotes Exist Quotes Fascinated Quotes Gravitational Quotes Idea Quotes Interacts Quotes Life Quotes Students Quotes Understand Quotes Wave Quotes Waves Quotes I said, suppose you take a light – I was thinking of just light bulbs because, in those days, lasers were not yet really there – and sent a light pulse between two masses. Then you do the same when there’s a gravitational wave. Lo and behold, you see that the time it takes light to go from one mass to the other changes because of the wave. Many of us on the project were thinking if we ever saw a gravitational wave, it’d be an itsy bitsy little tiny thing; we’d never see it. This thing was so big that you didn’t have to do much to see it.
Allan McNish I think music can really affect people’s emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat – that’s when you’ve got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus. – Allan McNish
David Axelrod We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What’s necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can’t balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy. – David Axelrod
Joe Lo Truglio I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there’s this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist. – Joe Lo Truglio
Bob Dole Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. – Bob Dole
Alan Yang It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man. – Alan Yang
CourageRudy Giuliani Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it’s a great demonstration of love. It’s really what love is. It’s finding areas in which other people are more important than you. – Rudy Giuliani
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