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Weston Anderson was on his way to invent Fourier transform spectroscopy in order to improve the sensitivity of NMR by parallel data acquisition.

Quote by Richard Ernst about order

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

Quote by Jackie Collins about end

Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Quote by Bill Gates about capitalism, things, world, people

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept...

Quote by Bill Gates about ignorance, fear, people, change, time

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Quote by Federico Fellini about things

My father had other ways of communicating. My father was the most inventive person.

Quote by Peter Fonda about man, people

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about humor, dark, problems, thinking, human imperfections, life, people

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Quote by Jim Fowler about television

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about purity, man

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Quote by Molly Ivins about politics, things, good, good luck

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

Quote by Mick Jagger about talent, literature, money, power, love

This is a real job - as real as a doctor, a teacher, or a scientist-and just as important as and very similar to healing, teaching and inventing.

Quote by Billy Joel about teaching, real estate, teachers

Just In Time inventory isn't.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about time

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Quote by Thomas Paine about opinion, christianity, power, human imperfections

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

Quote by Sara Paretsky

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Quote by John Dos Passos about mind, chaos, moral, man

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

Quote by Sean Penn

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about inspiration, poets

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Quote by Joseph Conrad about art, personality, action, artists, man

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh about mind, human imperfections