Robert Bunsen Quotes

Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. ~ Robert Bunsen

Describing Robert Bunsen:
As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. ~ Henry Enfield Roscoe

First I would like to wash Bunsen, and then I would like to kiss him because he is such a charming man.

(Remark by the wife of Emil Fischer, upon meeting Bunsen for the first time, perhaps noticing a lasting chemical odour from his work.) ~ Agnes Fischer

Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned - the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result of a measurement can be used, it must be interpreted - nature's answer must be understood properly. These two tasks are those of the theorist, who finds himself always more and more dependent on the tools of abstract mathematics. Of course, this does not mean that the experimenter does not also engage in theoretical deliberations. The foremost classical example of a major achievement produced by such a division of labor is the creation of spectrum analysis by the joint efforts of Robert Bunsen, the experimenter, and Gustav Kirchhoff, the theorist. Since then, spectrum analysis has been continually developing and bearing ever richer fruit. ~ Max Planck

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all. ~ Robert Bunsen

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. ~ Robert Bunsen

A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all. ~ Robert Kennedy

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine. ~ Robert Lynd

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run ~ Robert A. Heinlein

It's just misery to try to keep count of what God is no longer counting. ~ Robert Farrar Capon

People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Stories were heirlooms in these parts. ~ Robert Kurson

The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise. ~ Robert Scoble

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. ~ Robert B. Laughlin

History without politics descends to mere Literature. ~ John Robert Seeley

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture]. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

At that instant i knew there was no horror the world could offer - no war, no genocide, no famine, no childhood cancer - to which Sidney Kroll would not see the funny side ~ Robert Harris

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. ~ Robert Stack

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them. ~ Robert Watson

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl. ~ Robert Penn Warren

When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an. ~ Robert Spencer

we can never really experience what other people are experiencing. We always remain on the outside looking in, and this is the cause of so many misunderstandings and conflicts. But the primal source of human intelligence comes from the development of mirror neurons (see here), which gives us the ability to place ourselves in the skin of another and imagine their experience. Through continual exposure to people and by attempting to think inside them we can gain an increasing sense of their perspective, but this requires effort on our part. Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own beliefs and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware. When it comes to studying another culture, it is only through the use of our empathic powers and by participating in their lives that we can begin to overcome these natural projections and arrive at the reality of their experience. ~ Robert Greene

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Aside from her aged maid, Sansa's only companion was the Lord Robert, eight going on three. ~ George R R Martin

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory. ~ Robert H. Schuller

He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. ~ Robert Reich

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang! ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

White Christian America had its golden age in the 1950s, after the hardships and victories of World War Ii and before the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. June Cleaver was its mother, Andy Griffith was its sheriff, Norman Rockwell was its artist. and Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale were its ministers. ~ Robert P. Jones

Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there's a supermarket and a doctor's and a beach a five-minute walk away. That's all I want, and it's quite difficult to find. ~ Robert Webb

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh. ~ Jeffery Deaver

But this belief demonstrated only that Lyndon Johnson simply had not grasped that there was another world, a world in which Douglas and Lehman were not crazies but heroes, in which principles mattered far more than they did in the Senate. In addition, Lyndon Johnson had not fully appreciated that it didn't matter what he did for the liberals in Social Security and housing so long as he was not on their side on the "great issue." He should have appreciated this. ~ Robert A. Caro

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different. ~ Robert E. Ornstein

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas. ~ Robert Teeter

No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong. - Cardinal Vincent Benitez ~ Robert Harris

LAW 38
Think As You Like But Behave Like Others
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness. ~ Robert Greene

Ten glorious years at Pingfang, a sea of bodies brought to you by train. War as immunity from man's laws. Before, you'd worked in the shadows. During the ten years you worked for Division 4 there were no such hindrances. Dr. Masaki ran the inventory, cataloguing prisoners as non-descript units referred to only as "Materials Used." You preferred to call the prisoners "logs," each destined for the incinerator after they'd been of use. ~ Jeremy Robert Johnson

In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble. ~ Robert Reich

I made that horn sound like it never had before; I made it cry for all the miles and years that separated them. ~ Robert James Waller

You are attached to what you attack. ~ Robert Shea

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views. ~ Robert H. Schuller

I went to watch a movie in a theater, a couple weeks ago, and the trailer came on. My face is in the trailer, and then my name came up on the credits, and this is the dream you dare to dream, that came true. ~ Robert Kazinsky