Davisson Quotes

#1. 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

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

Stephanie Laurens

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

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Jon Hamm

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

Victor Hugo

#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. 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

#11. 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

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

Pope John Paul II

#13. 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

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

Penn Dayton Badgley

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

Audie Murphy

#16. 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

#17. 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