William Cecil Dampier famous quotes

It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.
-- William Cecil Dampier

#Together #Littles #Measurement

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.
-- William Cecil Dampier

#Science #Order #Mind

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.
-- William Cecil Dampier

#Knowledge #Limits #Spheres

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.
-- William Cecil Dampier

#Science #Sight #Window

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays..
-- William Cecil Dampier

#Thinking #Discovery #Likes

If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.
-- William Cecil Dampier

#Lying #Men #Years

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.