William Bradford Shockley Jr. Quotes

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Bradford Shockley Jr.

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• I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

  

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• At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

  

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• I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.

  

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• Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

  

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• I like to make people think a little bit.

  

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• I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

  

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• When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

  

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• Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

  

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• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  

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• We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.

  

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• Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

  

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• I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

  

  William Bradford Shockley Jr.
  • Rule
  • Allowed
  • Spherical