Victor Hess Quotes

#1. The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

Victor Francis Hess

#2. The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

Henry A. Wallace

#3. From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

Victor Francis Hess

#4. You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.

DJ Khaled

#5. Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

Farkas Bolyai

#6. You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it.And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires, because anybody only saw us at night.

Alice Cooper

#7. They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

Nikita Khrushchev

#8. Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.

Bob Ainsworth

#9. When you throw a tennis ball in the air, you can count on it coming down.

Gary Zukav

#10. Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.

Victor Francis Hess

#11. The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

Victor Francis Hess

#12. Errands of mercy
errands of sin
did you ever think where all the thousands of people you daily meet are bound?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#13. In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

Victor Francis Hess

#14. The difference between the detailed plans he drew up and the house itself when finished, so filled with raked sea light, is the difference between the body and the soul, between musical notation and a song, between the idea for a drawing and the actual drawing itself.

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#15. Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Gregory Benford

#16. We wanted to celebrate the 'Dangerous Deception' release by letting everyone experience the thrill of sharing a book with a reader who wouldn't otherwise have one.

Margaret Stohl

#17. At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

Panda Bear

#18. On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

Victor Francis Hess

#19. The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country

George S. Patton Jr.

#20. It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

Victor Francis Hess