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Carl D. Anderson
The theory of Dirac requires further that a positron, when it finds itself in a very ordinary environment, as, for example, in passing through common substances, will, on the average, have only a very short life, of the order of one billionth of a second or less.
Carl D. Anderson
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
Carl D. Anderson
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
Philip W. Anderson
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
John B. Anderson
How do you balance the budget, cut taxes and increase defense spending at the same time? It's very simple. You do it with mirrors.
Jeremy S. Anderson
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Joseph W. Alsop, Jr.
The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.
Gordon W. Allport
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like".
Gordon W. Allport
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.