Smithsonian Quotes

• El primer trabajo que tuve con el Smithsonian fue como investigador de campo entre las comunidades afroamericanas del suroeste de Luisiana y Arkansas para el festival.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Jobs, Community, African American

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• I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  School, Festivals, Graduates

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• I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Mean, Years, Twenties

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• If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Successful, Thinking, Able

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• The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

  Norm Dicks

  Agency, Government, United States

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• Ask any guy if sex is important in a relationship and the one who says no is lying. I just haven't met that guy yet. When you meet him, let's get him in to the Smithsonian - he's that special and rare.

  Steve Harvey

  Sex, Lying, Guy

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• There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

  Richard Brautigan

  Next, Seduction, Spirit

  Richard Brautigan (2014). “Trout Fishing in America”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened.

  Dylan Moran

  Stuff, Want, Fantastic

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting about 0.1% per century during that time, corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. And digging deep into historical records, Eddy has found 400-year-old eclipse observations that are consistent with such a shrinkage.

  Jonathan Sarfati

  Years, Data, Feet

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• I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

  Tommy Lasorda

  Portraits, Happens

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Q&A, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.

  Tim LaHaye

  Cristiano, Religioso, Jesús

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• El Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretario del Instituto Smithsonian, cree que en 25 años se habrán extinguido entre el 75 y el 80% de todas las especies de animales vivientes.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Creer, Animal, Años

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• After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

  Henry Adams

  Filosofía, Conocimiento, Ciencia

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• I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

  Jack L. Chalker

  School, Technology, College

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• As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  Perspective, Effort, Important

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• Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

  David Duchovny

  Swimming, Thinking, Two

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• The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
  Answering criticism that the book for which he won a Pulitzer Prize was written in the years he had been employed at the Smithsonian. He specified that did not write on the premises there, but only at home outside of working hours.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Libro, Inicio, Escritura

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• Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

  Ted Rall

  Usa, Iraq, Laughing

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• I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

  Joe Mantegna

  Character, Culture, Ifs

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• Los biólogos han tardado unos 230 años en identificar y describir tres cuartos de millón de insectos; si realmente hay al menos treinta millones, como estima Erwin (Terry Erwin, Instituto Smithsonian), entonces, trabajando como lo han hecho en el pasado, los taxónomos de insectos tienen diez mil años de empleo por delante. Ghilean Prance, director del Jardín Botánico de Kew, calcula que una lista completa de las plantas de América ocuparía a los taxónomos durante cuatro siglos, de nuevo trabajando al ritmo histórico.

  Richard Leakey

  Taken, Past, Garden

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• Jesús, esa oreja. Debería donarla al Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, hizo todos sus discos con cuatro pistas, pero no podrías hacer sus discos si tuvieras cien pistas hoy.

  Bob Dylan

  Jesus, Track, Records

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• If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'

  Guerrero Padmasree

  Magazines, India, Would Be

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• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  America, Effort, Mind

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• The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

  Xavier Becerra

  País, Arte, Museos

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