Clifford Shull famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.
-- Clifford Shull

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.
You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Clifford Shull famous quotes

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