Charles H. Townes Quotes

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

Charles H. Townes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NatureHopeScienceFindExploration

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

John Ortberg

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Love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play, but that comes down to the script. So, it's important that it's a good script with good, truthful characters and truthful subjects.

Aneurin Barnard

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In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.

John Stamos

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My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

Steve Aoki

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I'm dangerously generous.

Mika

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Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

Michele Bachmann

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When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Chris Evert

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'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Claire Denis

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Being on the red carpet is both fun and a little nerve wracking, but more fun.

Brad Goreski

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I don't think I'm going to be back on 'This Is Us.' I think that Uncle Ricky had his moment; he did what he had to do.

Brian Tyree Henry

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My career with the Navy and NASA gave me an incredible chance to showcase public service to which I am dedicated, and what we can accomplish on the big challenges of our day.

Scott Kelly

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And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.

Tim LaHaye

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