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“Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.”

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Louis Nizer

Louis Nizer was a renowned American lawyer, born on February 6, 1902, and passed away on November 10, 1994. He was known for his exceptional achievements and extensive career in the legal field. more

“Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.'”

Firsts Said Might Causes Deals Knowing Danger Possibility Tests Asking Nuclear Atmosphere Bombs Bottles Atoms Bob Explosions Whiskey Atomic Bomb Atom Bomb Rattlesnakes

Author:Edward Teller

“I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.”

Way Simple Common Modern Claims Complicated Contrary Physics Common Sense Unusual Another Way Relativity Modern Physics

Book:Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

“In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.”

Writing Years Used Three My Own Saws Four Fields Structure Various Work Out Rays Four Years Laboratory Bothered Minerals Dodge

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.”

Beautiful Taken Missing Perfection Scientist Photograph Extremes Clarity Substance Rays Distinguished Franklin

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.”

Found Rivers Newton Anthropology

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .”

Thinking Moments Facts Emotion Spring Bases Add Musical Patterns Composer Listeners Incapable Anticipate

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

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