Aurel Bulgac

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Office:        Physics and Astronomy Building, B478

                              Professor

                              Fellow of the American Physical Society
                              Nuclear Theory Group
                              Department of Physics
                              University of Washington
                              P.O. Box 351560
                              Seattle, WA 98195-1560, USA

                                     UNEDF-SciDAC
                                      

                                      APS Outstanding Referee

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      MEDIA

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                                  RESEARCH -  Quantum Many-Body Nuclear Physics and Related Systems
 
                                  NUMERICAL PROGRAMS

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

They misunderestimated me.

... for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. From that alliance has come an era of peace in the Pacific.

We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.

Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

First of all, I don't see America having problems.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer -- prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

Poor people aren't necessarily killers.

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

And they have no disregard for human life.

We're fixing to go down to Galveston and obviously are going to see a devastated part of this fantastic state.

This thaw -- took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw.

The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: markets must be open.

"We both use Colgate toothpaste," he said, when asked what he had in common with Tony Blair.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high.

Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?

The public education system in America is one of the most important foundations of our democracy. After all, it is where children from all over America learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society.

I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

Make no mistake… I talk to families who die.

Just because you happen to be not rich, doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

"It is white," he told a British child who asked what the White House was like.

In this job you've got a lot on your plate on a regular basis.

You don't have much time to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008

I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.

I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that -- in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the -- of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.

So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success.

"Your eminence, you're looking good." --George W. Bush to Pope Benedict XVI, using the title for Catholic cardinals, rather than addressing him as "your holiness," Rome, June 13, 2008

We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.   Bertrand Russell

My interest in science is to simply find out about the world. . . . When we go to investigate it,  we shouldn't pre-decide what it is we're trying to do, except to try to find out more about it. . . .  Altogether, I can't believe these special stories that have been made up about our relationship  to the universe at large because they seem to me too simple, too connected, too local, too  provincial. . . . I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more  interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. 

I wouldn't want my doctor thinking that intelligent design was an equally plausible hypothesis to evolution any  more than I would want my airplane pilot believing in the flat Earth. James Langer  

On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague: This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli

When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers,  you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.  Lord Kelvin

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert Heinlein

I'm a strong believer that ignorance is important in science. If you know too much, you start seeing why things won't work. That's why it's important to change your field to collect more ignorance. Sydney Brenner

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the Ark and professionals built the Titanic. Dave Barry

Jones's First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress - in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebook of Lazarus Long

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.    Bertrand Russell