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Quotes About Cavendish

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
~ Aaron Klug
he had worked under Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish and had designed and built the Harvard cyclotron that now served the Manhattan Project's purposes on the Hill.
~ Richard Rhodes
While any Fair Witness would do, the prestige of Cavendish was such that a lawyer was hardly necessary—the old gentleman had testified many times before the High Court and it was said that the wills locked up in his head represented billions. Cavendish had received his training in total recall from the great Dr. Samuel Renshaw and his hypnotic instruction as a fellow of the Rhine Foundation.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Cavendish is a fantastic and jovial boy.
~ Eddy Merckx
As she walked slowly down the hall, she could hear them arguing - nothing violent, nothing impassioned. But then, she'd not have expected that. Cavendish tempers ran cold, and they were far more likely to attack with a frozen barb than a heated cry.
~ Julia Quinn
The current best estimate for the Earth's weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of only about 1 per cent from Cavendish's finding.
~ Bill Bryson
So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.
~ Sydney Brenner
I'd have no problem with Cavendish winning 34 or 35 Tour stages.
~ Eddy Merckx
What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind! as if some giant cucumber had spread itself over all the roses and carnations in the garden and choked them to death.
~ Virginia Woolf
Otros piratas británicos como Cavendish y Davis en 1592 y Hawkins en 1594 recorrieron las costas patagónicas y el mar adyacente, lo que es invocado por Gran Bretaña para justificar su actual posesión de las islas Malvinas y otras del Atlántico Sur.
~ Pacho O'Donnell