Canadian Quotes

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.