Edward Victor Appleton Quotes

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

Edward Victor Appleton

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• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Change

• There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

  

  Brownie McGhee
  • Good

• How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Win
  • Right
  • Within

• There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Mind
  • Information
  • Library

• I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Plans
  • Around

• Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • May
  • Hard

• I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Agree

• The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Past
  • Sunset

• I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Joy
  • Things
  • Gains

• I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Christian
  • Miracles

• I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Man
  • Speak
  • Creeds

• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Fun
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Kid
  • I Remember
  • Member

• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Human
  • Menace

• The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Grace
  • Traveling
  • Airline

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

  

  Edward Victor Appleton
  • Hopes
  • Fears
  • Atomic Energy