Smalley Quotes

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis fails to become a Christian because of a lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with god. ~ William Lane Craig

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred. ~ Richard Smalley

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players. ~ Bert Campaneris

Be a scientist, save the world. ~ Richard Smalley

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick. ~ Gary Smalley

I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit. ~ Dave Smalley

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better. ~ Richard Smalley

We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it. ~ Richard Smalley

I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music - teachers who found out I could sing, and encouraged me, or teachers who turned me on to music or bands I hadn't yet heard. ~ Dave Smalley

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. ~ Gary Smalley

Life is relationships; the rest is just details. ~ Gary Smalley

We cannot heal the wounds we do not feel. ~ S. R. Smalley

Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general. ~ Richard Smalley

I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too. ~ Dave Smalley

Love is a decision. Not always an easy one. ~ Gary Smalley

The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind. ~ Dave Smalley

God's saving offer of life and love is available for all; but it cannot be separated from his judgement on evil, and his triumph over it. ~ Stephen S. Smalley

A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger." ~ Gary Smalley

I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic. ~ Dave Smalley

Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination. ~ Richard Smalley

It always confused me how Smalley managed to keep enrolment limited only to Guardian bloodlines. I don't know, maybe she put some charm up that made people think about dead puppies every time they stepped on campus. That's what I would have done, anyway, if I were headmistress. ~ Cecily White

If it ain't tubes, we don't do it. ~ Richard Smalley

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem. ~ Richard Smalley

Since the Word became flesh (John 1.14), heaven and earth remain indissolubly joined. ~ Stephen S. Smalley

May God's richest blessings be upon you both today and throughout the year and may those blessings flow through you to touch the lives of everyone you meet. ~ Gary Smalley

The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center. ~ Richard Smalley

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. ~ Gary Smalley

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks. ~ Richard Smalley

I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values. ~ Richard Smalley

One really important thing is to have good friends and family that will be there to help you when the hard times come. Because bad times do come, for everyone, at some point. The good part is, the bad times don't last forever. ~ Dave Smalley

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens. ~ Richard Smalley

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley. ~ Al Franken

Our bodies are like vast landscapes, revealing hidden stories and emotions through their physical changes, both external and internal. ~ Susan L. Smalley