Edward Victor Appleton quotes
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“No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].”
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“I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.”
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“[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.”
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“I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.”
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“I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.”
-- Edward Victor Appleton
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“I am an instigator of the national energies.”
Source : "For My Legionaries" by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, York, SC: Liberty Bell Publications, 2003.
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Source : Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.
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Source : Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1997). “Mondrian: nature to abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague”, Tate Gallery Pubn
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