Arthur Compton Quotes

#1. Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.

Luis W. Alvarez

#2. He helped Vicki with her BCD, tank and weight belt before getting into his gear.

Jeff Russell

#3. Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.

Darren Main

#4. If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].

Edward Albee

#5. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

Arthur H. Compton

#6. Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Arthur H. Compton

#7. Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

Arthur Compton

#8. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.
-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon

Howard Tayler

#9. G.W.F. Hegel. "He's perfect," Weishaupt wrote ... "Unlike Kant, who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense in any language.

Robert Anton Wilson

#10. To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Arthur Holly Compton

#11. I wished for Derek Michen to kiss my face off (that one was when I was nine years old and was absolutely positive he was the love of my life. He did kiss me two weeks later, but then he also kissed Jessica, David, Megan, Rhonda, and Robert. Derek turned out to be a bit of a whore).

T.J. Klune

#12. At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar's last breath.

Arthur Compton

#13. [Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.

Robert Dessaix

#14. Knitting is still trying to teach me
That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#15. If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Arthur Holly Compton

#16. But you, that are polluted with your lusts, Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents, Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices, Because you want the grace that others have, You judge it straight a thing impossible To compass wonders but by help of devils.

William Shakespeare

#17. My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Arthur Holly Compton

#18. 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 Compton

#19. In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Jeff Greenfield

#20. Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Arthur Compton

#21. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

Valentino Rossi

#23. Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

Arthur Compton

#24. Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has shown to exist in quantities millions of times greater than is liberated by combustion.

Arthur Compton

#25. I definitely want to grow intelligently, but I do want to stay a kid forever!

Levi Miller

#26. I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

Steve Perryman

#27. Democracy is self-creating coherence.

Mary Parker Follett

#28. It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.

Arthur Compton