Top 3 Edward Victor Appleton Quotes

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

Edward Victor Appleton

#2. [T]he 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.

Edward Victor Appleton

#3. 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

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