Sir William Henry Bragg Quotes

#1. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Henry Bragg

William Henry Bragg

#2. You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Tom Lehrer

#3. The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

H.L. Mencken

#4. How long has it been since we've had such delectable visitors?"
Jeb eases us into a small clearing in the midst of the chattering creatures and turns me to face him. "Did they just call us 'delectable'?

A.G. Howard

#5. I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work ... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

Tony DiTerlizzi

#7. An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

D. J. Enright

#8. Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

Paul C. Nagel