Edward Victor Appleton famous quotes

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No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
-- Edward Victor Appleton

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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
-- Edward Victor Appleton

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[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.
-- Edward Victor Appleton

#Spring #Ideas #Progress
I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.
-- Edward Victor Appleton

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
-- Edward Victor Appleton

#Music #Long #Mind

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
I am an instigator of the national energies.
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict
We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

Edward Victor Appleton famous quotes

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