Lasers Quotes

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  Natalie Portman

  Dad, Doctors, Mad

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• Focus like a laser, not a flashlight

  Michael Jordan

  Focus, Flashlights

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• A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

  Al Ries

  Cancer, Light, Focus

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• ‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Use, Physics, These Days

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• The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

  Steven Chu

  Atoms, Intensity, Moths

  "Lasers Slow Atom for Scrutiny". The New York Times, July 13, 1986.

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• I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

  David Baldacci

  Pages, Lasts, Hundred

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• I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

  Courteney Cox

  Thinking, Wave, Bigs

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• We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

  Alfred Kastler

  Light, Transition, Atoms

  Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”

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• Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

  G. Harry Stine

  Jobs, Invention, Looking For A Job

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• But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

  Gordon Gould

  Law, Ignorant, Able

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• I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms...my entire body is hairless.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Hair

  "https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-body/news/khloe-kardashian-i-feel-massive-next-to-kim-kourtney-2011274/". Allure Magazine, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2010.

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• Never fire a laser at a mirror.

  Larry Niven

  Fire, Mirrors

  Larry Niven (1984). “Niven's Laws”, Owlswick Press

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• My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

  Jay Roach

  Track, Guy, Criticism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.

  Linda Evans

  Eye, Dynasty, Lines

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• Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

  Bill Joy

  Media, Dots, Printer

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• Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

  David Bowie

  Blazers

  Song: The Jean Genie, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973

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• Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

  Robert Winston

  Cds, Design, Example

  "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.

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• The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

  Charles Hard Townes

  Ideas, People, Richard Feynman

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• If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?

  William Arthur Ward

  Prayer, Cutting, Doubt

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• Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.

  Hope Solo

  Athlete, Focus, Training

  "Will you still medal in the morning?" by Sam Alipour, www.espn.com. July 8, 2012.

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• The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

  Alain Aspect

  Roots, Information, Ingredients

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• The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Looks, Stories, Records

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up in his campaign slogan, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cutting violence in half with a laser-guided chain gun across a charred landscape - for the children.'

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Children, Cutting

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• In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Powerful, Healing, Meditation

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