Quotes About Recognition

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)

Do you love me?" His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool's chance at that

JOH! Thank God I found you.""I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.

I'm just saying, 'Hey, throw me a bone. How about a smile, cute t-shirt? Look at me.' Nothing - unless it's a turn to their friends to go, 'Hey, why is that weird guy looking at us?'

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.