J. Arthur Thomson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
-- J. Arthur Thomson

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The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.
-- J. Arthur Thomson

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All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.
-- J. Arthur Thomson

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Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
-- J. Arthur Thomson

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The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
-- J. Arthur Thomson

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There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
-- J. Arthur Thomson

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A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
-- J. Arthur Thomson

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The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.
-- J. Arthur Thomson

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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

J. Arthur Thomson famous quotes

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