The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. – Cecil Frank Powell
If you’re a photographer, they give you a camera. If you’re a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you’re an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call. – Doug Harvey
When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it. – Charles Glover Barkla
No matter what, I’m in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films – very few. – Elizabeth Banks
I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I’m 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn’t matter. – Dak Prescott
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. – Nikola Tesla
It doesn’t matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything. – Chen Long
It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us. – Christian Lous Lange
The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we’ll never escape our limitations. – Greg Mottola
Industrialization starts with the formation of capital – it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves. – F. Sionil Jose
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare’s plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end. – Charlton Heston
With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject. – Chris Raschka
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. – Gary Hamel
Essays just aren’t my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average. – Danny Wallace
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in. – Nicholas D. Kristof
On the matter – on the issue of life, it’s life. So I actually would pursue appointment, court appointments that would overturn Roe v. Wade. – Evan McMullin
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. – Matt Taibbi
I’m an adventurer. There are so many things I’d like to do. I’d love to do an Angelina Jolie and dress in lycra and kick the crap out of somebody in a movie. It doesn’t matter how rubbish the script is. – Cush Jumbo
