John Henry Carver quotes
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“Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.”
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“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.”
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“I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.”
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“My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.”
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“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.”
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“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
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“My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.”
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Source : Frank H. Knight (2012). “Risk, Uncertainty and Profit”, p.24, Courier Corporation
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“I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.”
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“We are a nation of shop keepers.”
Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.”
Source : "Fictional character: Bernie 'Mac' McCullough". TV Series "The Bernie Mac Show", www.imdb.com. 2001-2006.
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“[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.”
Source : John Buchan (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)”, p.3978, Delphi Classics
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