Edward Victor Appleton Quotes

• I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Morning, Science, Years

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• No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Hope, Science, Mixtures

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• [T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Spring, Science, Ideas

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• I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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