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Charles H. Townes Quotes

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

Charles H. Townes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1915 - January 27, 2015

Topics

Faith Science Prove Make Those Them

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Work Support Oppression Human Heroes

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Good Powerful Good Intentions Hatred

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

John O. Brennan

War Hell Innocent Sometimes Why Yes

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Yourself You Measure Ability Your

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.

Fun Risks Loved Comedy Enjoy Look

I love my mother a not-normal amount.

Love Mother I Love Amount

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Life Work Worth Transparency Clearly

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

School Maturity High School Grow Way

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Time Tide Stop Like Trains

My thing with failure, just forget about it and get up and do it again.

Failure Forget Up Get Just Again

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

Myself Luck Think Thought Lucky Get

The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.

Deborah Harkness

Stars Influence World Action Magic

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