Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Famous Quotes
"People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given."
It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Quotations
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
"It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures."
Roland Stahler
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Julius Henry Marx
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Wallace Stevens
"Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense."
George Gallup
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
Alfred Whitney
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
"If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning."
Carl R Rogers
"The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fear"
Unknown
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn