C. F. Powell Quotes
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.
A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.
Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?
What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.