David Lee Quotations

There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.

Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.

My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.

I have been waiting for this opportunity to get in there and the coach has been happy with me lately and told me to just go out there and play as hard I can. I just brought the same attitude I've been bringing, and instead of bringing that attitude for five or 10 minutes I had a chance to bring it for some more time tonight.

Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.

There is a language barrier. My Korean workers do not speak Spanish or English. My Latino workers do not speak English or Korean.

Today is a day where we celebrate reading, particularly about Dr. Seuss. I was off-track this month, so I volunteered to come in and read.

He really understands the game. And I just really think it's a big blessing that I can have my first coach in the NBA be a guy I can learn so much from.

Just like Harry you have to learn your way around. You have to go to classes, learn spells, and interact with evil counterparts.

I think you really have to evaluate and see how things are going and be honest. That goes back to having people around you that are not going to tell you what you want to hear. Instead they give you true advice.

I see a lot of Hispanic workers being promoted by Korean business owners. This morning, I joked with my Latino workers that I only saw two of them marching.

People are saying, 'I could buy a bus pass for $77, and I'm paying that much in a week and a half just filling my tank to go to work.

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.

It felt good to be in there. They recognize I'm a hard worker and that's what I'm going to continue to do every time I step onto a floor.

It doesn't make it easy to sleep at night, that's for sure. It's disappointing. People ask, 'Are you happy in New York?' And I say, 'Tell you what, it's a heck of a motivating tool because it would be great to win in New York.' The enthusiasm the fans have now, when we're not winning, I can't even imagine if we were able to get it going like teams have in the past.

I still think it is a negative step I am not convinced.

I thought it proved the point that, if you build something nice, it will bring people into Wilson. That's what we wanted; that's what we have always argued.

The 4.5 is just too deep a cut for me.

That was my weakness coming in here and it's been something that I've really put in long hours on and it's starting to pay off. I'm starting to feel more confident because a lot of my shooting is just confidence.

We play 82 games. They play 35 games or something, and they've won more games. It's been a tough year for us. They've done a great job.

That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?

I had heard about Cheers, of course, but I never watched it. So I watched two episodes, and I was like, "Oh my God. This is really good."

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside of 12 to 15 feet. Now, I really feel comfortable from the wing and the corner area out to 18, 19 feet. I'm going to keep working and continue to improve it.

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

I don't remember what script it was, but at the Monday table read, the [opening] teaser didn't work.We went back and had to think of a new teaser, and [after] four hours, five hours, we weren't landing on anything.And it was probably Glen [Charles] who said, "What are we, cowards?" You had to do it, no matter how long it took.

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it..

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

To me, as a professional diplomat, I always consider the substance to be more important than the face.

Warner was concerned that if the situation in the Taiwan Strait took a turn for the worse, the U.S. might not have enough military force to enter into a conflict.

Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

It was an unofficial path that people have followed for years. We've just improved it, is all.

I've already seen a bunch of people out on it.

Anything that ruins our sovereignty is out of the question.

They didn't have enough room in Raleigh and we were approached about our soccer fields and soccer complex. And when they checked them out, they went absolutely nuts.

It's a stage for all Americans to view Chinese culture, Chinese people and China's role in the world. Such a visible event has the power to shape hearts and minds.

It's going to be big. This tournament will put Wilson on the national soccer map. We look forward to 2008 and will do everything we can to make it an enjoyable experience.

The biggest thing is athletically, I don't feel, other than a guy like Vince Carter, nobody is out of my league athletic-wise. The game didn't seem overly fast or physical.

It's very impressive. He's come a long way.

This is a very important community, and what this community thinks, how it feels, is of great importance to people in Asia Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and so forth. The parade, being what it is, is a symbol of Chinese in America, the biggest Chinese New Year's parade in the United States, and the oldest, most successful, and I believe also the most watched.

I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.

I'd give that up for winning right now. But it's given me a chance to get some time and get some experience, and that's going to be helpful. ... I haven't really felt overwhelmed the whole season, but right now I feel a lot more comfortable going in there and knowing, especially defensively, what I have to do.

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.