Arthur Holly Compton Quotes

The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working.

Arthur Holly Compton

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

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• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
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• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
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• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
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• I love to be surprised.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
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• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Time
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• You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Me
  • Write
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• How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Bad
  • Angry
  • Say

• It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Kind
  • Always
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• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Children
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• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
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• I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bad
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• 'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Women
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• I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
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  • Soul

• 'Anita,' he asked, 'are there really werewolves?''Yes,' she told him. 'Your werewolves are down there.'And that was right, he thought. The darkness of the mind, the bleakness of the thought, the shallowness of purpose. These were the werewolves of the world.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • World
  • Mind
  • She

• The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Enormous
  • Probably
  • Positions

• Sometimes I feel so separated, you know? The Kardashians over here, the Jenners over here, little me in the middle. We've got to keep the family going.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• It is a fit time to go to the drinking, With the skilful men, about art, And a hundred knots, the custom of the country, The shepherd of the districts, support of gates, Like going without a foot to battle.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Men
  • Country

• Love is love, and people need to just accept that.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People

• The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Purpose