William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby famous quotes

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
-- William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby

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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.