Holton Quotes

#1. When passions rise may reason be the guide.

Jennie Holton Fant

#2. Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite." (Senator)

Leonard Holton

#3. We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Abba Kovner

#4. Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane.

Gerald Holton

#5. He could judge with reasonable accuracy the amount of use a book had had. The first item to show any sign of wear was the dust jacket at the top and bottom of the spine. Little tears or cracks in the paper appeared here if a book had been taken off a shelf as much as three or four times.

Leonard Holton

#6. The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.

Gerald Holton

#7. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

Gerald Holton

#8. The sky was a pretty canvas of blushing oranges, electric pinks, deep blues and vibrant purples as the sun made way for the moon.

A.Z. Green

#9. A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

Emily Dickinson

#10. Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.

Gerald Holton

#11. I hope that you enjoy reading my dreams in as much as I had in dreaming them.

G.R. Holton

#12. The normal man is the support of his whole community. He doesn't get into trouble, pays his bills, helps to get the roads paved and the street lighting improved, and the school bonds passed. That's the proper way to spend a life.

Leonard Holton

#13. God will pardon me..that's His line of work.
last words of Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

#14. Numberless are the world's wonders

Sophocles

#15. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.

Seth Godin

#16. Young sir," he said, "you speak like an expert. And an expert, I can assure you, from a long association with them, is someone who has gone to considerable pains to be absolutely wrong.

Leonard Holton

#17. I can't just open myself up the way some people can. And down here, you're raised a certain way. You're taught to keep some things private, family matters especially. It's just the way it's done."

"Everyone worships the past but no one really wants to talk about it.

Cathy Holton