Edward Appleton Quotes

#1. What's the book like?"
"Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!

David Mitchell

#2. I've had a tense couple of days. And I've got to tell you, burning someone's face off sounds like a great way to relax.

Jim Butcher

#3. The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy.

Deb Caletti

#4. I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

Kate Upton

#5. I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

Larry Bird

#6. I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Edward Appleton

#7. There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.

Robert Monroe

#8. Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

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

Edward Victor Appleton

#10. [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

#11. 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

#12. I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Edward Appleton