Antony Hewish Quotes

#1. I like running because then my heart is pounding for a reason I can understand.

Jessica

#2. I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

Antony Hewish

#3. Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

Antony Hewish

#4. One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.

Susanna Clarke

#5. Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

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#7. My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers, Jack Ratcliffe, who had given an excellent course on electromagnetic theory during my final undergraduate year.

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#8. Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Pierre De Coubertin

#9. We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

John Calvin

#10. If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

Jack Johnson

#11. Michelangelo was once asked how he would carve an elephant. He replied, I would take a large piece of stone and take away everything that was not the elephant.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever.

Rumi

#13. I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Antony Hewish

#14. don't build a park bench if you secretly love Frisbee.

Jon Acuff

#15. I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

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#16. I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.

Ann Coulter

#17. I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.

Mark Twain

#18. The key to happiness is achievable dreams.

Nicholas Sparks

#19. Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Antony Hewish