Edward Victor Appleton Quotes

United Kingdom, Physicist
September 6, 1892 – April, 21, 1965.

Sir Edward Victor Appleton was an English physicist. Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911.

The 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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No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears as atomic energy.

Edward Victor Appleton

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
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.

Edward Victor Appleton