A. K. Antony Quotes

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

Ive always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat.

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.