Shockley Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

William Shockley

#3. Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.

William Shockley

#4. The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.

William Shockley

#5. If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

Misha Collins

#6. Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Muriel Barbery

#7. Healing severe or chronic pain, I believe, includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life.

Sarah Anne Shockley

#8. Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.

Alexandra Robbins

#9. It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

William Shockley

#10. The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

William Shockley

#11. Time is the Illusion that conditions matter.

Guy Lozier

#12. ...the future is closed to us; were it not, life would be insupportable, as only uncertainty admits of hope

Stanley Michael Hurd

#13. I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Shockley

#14. I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.

William Shockley

#15. Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.

William Shockley

#16. I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

Gabrielle Aplin

#17. There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

David Foster Wallace

#19. The faithful are called through grace to be partakers of God's holiness (Heb. 12), restored to their primordial capacity to reflect, like a mirror, the radical holiness and purity of God, even though their mirroring is always imprecise (Irenaeus, Ag. Her. 5.16).

Thomas C. Oden

#20. No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

Yanni

#21. An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.

William Shockley

#22. An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.

Richard Leonard

#23. I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

Tippi Hedren

#24. Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?

Ken Follett