Edward Condon Quotes

The whole apparatus of using loyalty-security hearings for working off personal political spite has been firmly established as a part of our "way of life" and I do not see anything happening yet to loosen the hold of this machinery on us. ~ Edward Condon

I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back ... I can only say; God Save Ireland! ~ Edward Condon

What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it does some good. ~ Edward Condon

Brought before HCUA, Miller was chastised for the suggestion that Congressional investigations might have something in common with witch trials; he replied, "The comparison is inevitable, sir." Thomas was shortly afterwards thrown in jail for fraud. ~ Carl Sagan

By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder. ~ Stanislaw Ulam

Condon, quick on his feet, replied that the accusation was untrue. He was not a revolutionary in physics. He raised his right hand: "I believe in Archimedes' Principle, formulated in the third century B.C. I believe in Kepler's laws of planetary motion, discovered in the seventeenth century. I believe in Newton's laws.…" And on he went, invoking the illustrious names of Bernoulli, Fourier, Ampère, Boltzmann, and Maxwell. ~ Carl Sagan

Sir U__ fell down from a speeding train,
Which did some damage to his brain,
And after that he did not know
How to pronounce the letter O. ~ Edward Gorey

The whistling dawn, the sussurration of the leaves, a honking goose, and then a sentimental confab at the Solid Rock Gospel Church with a wounded soul who poured his heart out to Press precisely because he was blind and therefore harmless. Since these individuals had no money, he couldn't give them financial advice, just wholehearted sympathy. As at the commune, a toddler might scramble into his lap, and while he petted the child its mother held a cookie to its mouth and another one to his to bite and chew.
A world worth living in and for. ~ Edward Hoagland

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. ~ Edward Dahlberg

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. ~ Edward R. Murrow

Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed. ~ Edward Snowden

Great men are almost always bad men. ~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations
fear. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. ~ Edward Sapir

Small, noncomparative, highly labeled data sets usually belong in tables. ~ Edward R. Tufte

I write to find out what I'm talking about. ~ Edward Albee

DURING THAT YEAR, and especially in the winter months, he found himself returning more and more frequently to such a state of unreality; at will, he seemed able to remove his consciousness from the body that contained it, and he observed himself as if he were an oddly familiar stranger doing the oddly familiar things that he had to do. It was a dissociation that he had never felt before; he knew that he ought to be troubled by it, but he was numb, and he could not convince himself that it mattered. ~ John Edward Williams

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure. ~ Edward Conze

Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear. ~ Edward T. Welch

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food. ~ Edward Abbey

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics. ~ Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. ~ Edward Norton

What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics. ~ Edward M. Lerner

If you understand the system you can design appropriate action. ~ Edward De Bono

We are all free in a democracy to believe whatever we wish, so why call any opinion such as Creationism a virulent cultural parasite-equivalent? Because it represents a triumph of blind religious faith over carefully tested fact. It is not a conception of reality forged by evidence and logical judgment. Instead, it is part of the price of admission to a religious tribe. Faith is the evidence given of a person's submission to a particular god, and even then not to the deity directly but to other humans who claim to represent the god. ~ Edward O. Wilson

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. ~ Edward Abbey

The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable. ~ Edward Gibbon

Any definition which limits us is deplorable. ~ Edward Albee

Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart. ~ Edward Young

It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences. ~ Edward Higgins White

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of Earth: We arrived, we're humanizing the Earth, and it will be the destiny of Earth for us to wipe humans out and most of the rest of biodiversity. But I think the great majority of thoughtful people consider that a morally wrong position to take, and a very dangerous one. ~ Edward O. Wilson

A book: "A haven for provocation and privacy ~ Edward P. Morgan

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that. ~ Edward Tufte

The first century of the plague had seen the country turned upside down. In the twilight years of Edward III it seemed that nothing could damage the greatness of the Plantagenet royal estate. But the world of the village went from impoverished claustrophobia to traumatized infection. A hundred years later, everything had been upended, courtesy of King Death. ~ Simon Schama

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. ~ Edward Young

I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry. ~ Edward Lampert

Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds