Charles Rolls famous quotes

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.
-- Charles Rolls

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Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.

My wife will tell you that I'm very particular and it's annoying for other people. I eat the same thing every day. I go to the gym at the same time every day. I go to L.A. all the time, so I take that same 9:30 flight. I will not take another one.

Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future