Lord of
Lord of
faces problem vow
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
mistake soul practicals
There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application...
survival useless vectors
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.
time doe energy
At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?
careers driven demented
I have been driven demented in my career.
truman turns precise
I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.
president computer british
In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
floating grew harbors
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
boredom boring ashamed
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
expression democracy can-not
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
fathom mind shallow thou thy
Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it
courage men odds
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
birthday cake sagging
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
funny-things people today
It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.