22 Quotes by George Johnson

I think of it as an adjunct to the daily newspaper. It's like part op-ed page, part wannabe newspaper.

Those are going to go a long way toward investing in transportation systems. But we also need the state to step up to the plate and fund their share of what needs to be done.

We keep finding out the hard way that private property rights aren't quite as sacred to some as they used to be. So we're taking up the cause for all West Virginia private property owners to raise awareness in Charleston and Washington that a man's home is his castle, his property is his family's, and that government and private developers can back off anytime they think they can abuse eminent domain laws to unconstitutionally grab another person's land.

I view globalization as a challenge to really step up and identify, as was mentioned earlier, sort of the cutting edge aspects.

Individuals who cannot afford health insurance coverage can still have access to appropriate care provided by free health clinics. We are pleased to be able to fund better access to healthcare for the uninsured and underinsured and to help limit one of the cost drivers of premiums for the insured -- that is the use of hospitals for non-emergency care by the uninsured.

In our analysis, knowing what the law is, there's not anything that could have been done.

The cities and counties throughout the state have done a lot of things to bring funding to the table.

The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible to discern enough of the universe's underlying order to tap energy so powerful that it can destroy its discoverers or slowly poison them with its waste.

Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.