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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Quote by Richard Bach about end, world

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Quote by Richard Bach about past, future, change, mind, contentment

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Quote by Richard Bach about dream, power, being, work, contentment

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Quote by Richard Bach about wish, power, being, work, contentment

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Quote by Richard Bach about contentment, light

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Quote by Richard Bach about need, contentment

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Quote by Richard Bach about honesty, measure, conscience

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Quote by Richard Bach about contentment

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Quote by Richard Bach about impossible, being

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Quote by Michael Chabon about work, love

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

Quote by Richard Ernst about art, magic, love

At the age of 13, I found in the attic a case filled with chemicals, remainders of an uncle who died in 1923 and was, as a metallurgical engineer, interested in chemistry and photography.

Quote by Richard Ernst about photography, age, olderness

During my last years at Varian (1966-68), we developed numerous computer applications in spectroscopy for automated experiments and improved data processing.

Quote by Richard Ernst

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Quote by Richard Ernst about artists, faith, time

Finally in the summer of 1974, we tried our first experiments in desperate need of results to be presented at the VIth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Kandersteg, 1974.

Quote by Richard Ernst about need

From then on, the development of multi-dimensional spectroscopy went very fast, inside and outside of our research group.

Quote by Richard Ernst about evolution, fasting, research

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

Quote by Richard Ernst about books, city, home

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Quote by Richard Ernst about intention, career, present, chance

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

Quote by Richard Ernst about air, parents, home, house

I had the great luck to grow up, together with two sisters, in a town that combined in a unique way artistic and industrious activities.

Quote by Richard Ernst about bad luck, good luck, city