"The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!"

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Source : Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Volume 35, (p. 251), 1951.

Joseph John Thomson

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“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
“I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.”
“We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.”

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“We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, God of Heaven, Son of Righteousness and the Kingdom of Heaven into our hearts, and have made the Heavenly City our Home!”
“A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.”
“A lie cannot live.”
“There's always going to be some hate on the Internet.”
“The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.”

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