William Shockley Quotes

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature.

William Shockley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 13, 1910 - August 12, 1989

Topics

NatureKnowledgeMeResearchKnow

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Jerome Charyn

ArtDanceThinkAdmireInvisible

I'd be very happy serving on a local school board. I just know that I have a responsibility to give back.

Andrew Zimmern

ResponsibilitySchoolHappyBack

I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible.

Melonie Diaz

DailyTimeBestExperienceYourself

The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

John Shimkus

GodTimeManEndEarthWill

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

LifeNatureComputersThinkImage

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

Stella McCartney

WishSometimesI WishSensibleLess

'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

Sue Monk Kidd

MotherDaughterRelationshipStory

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.

Mikko Hypponen

TimeGovernmentThinkSearchYou

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

Michael Moriarty

LifeBookMy LifeGoOpenCore

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

David Walliams

ChildrenMyselfLiteratureKnowPoor

People's mouse clicks decide what businesses, services, and content succeed. Users have equal access to tiny businesses with viral ideas and blue-chip companies, allowing these enterprises to compete on their own merits. It's how so many small start-ups have been able to become Internet success stories.

Chellie Pingree

SuccessPeopleIdeasSucceedSmall

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

Cliff Martinez

MusicFeelLearnUnderstandMore

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