Davisson Quotes

#1. Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.

Willard Boyle

#2. My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.

William Shockley

#3. It is a world," he said, "filled with the mysterious joinder of accident!"
"It is a world," replied Abner, "filled with the mysterious justice of God!

Melville Davisson Post

#4. And freedom is what America means to the world.

Audie Murphy

#5. I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

Penn Dayton Badgley

#6. About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#7. Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.

Pope John Paul II

#8. It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.

Melville Davisson Post

#9. There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.

Richard Davisson

#10. The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.

Victor Hugo

#11. Part of being an adult is treating women like women.

Jon Hamm

#12. Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#13. A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

Sydney J. Harris

#14. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold ... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

Bernard Cornwell

#15. I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#16. Then her ladyship, overwhelming in bronze bombazine, regally glided away. Cedric smiled

Stephanie Laurens

#17. What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.

JD Era