John Henry Carver famous quotes

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
-- John Henry Carver

#Chance #Professors #Shops

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.
-- John Henry Carver

#Two #Competition #Giants

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
-- John Henry Carver

#Math #Physics #Mathematics

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
-- John Henry Carver

#Father #House #Carpentry

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.
-- John Henry Carver

#War #Engineering #Medicine

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.
-- John Henry Carver

#Memories #Father #Journey

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.