Arthur Holly Compton Quotes

The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

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• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • You

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Work
  • Great
  • Saying

• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Soul
  • Sky

• I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • More
  • Cast
  • Goofy

• I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Better
  • View

• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Travel
  • Write

• It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Cool

• There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Peace
  • Universe

• During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Age

• I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

  

  Chris Evans
  • World
  • Different
  • Movie

• In my view, a right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the 'unalienable Rights' with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men . . . are endowed by their Creator.'

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Men
  • Children
  • Parents

• God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Heaven

• The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • World
  • Together
  • Powerful