Ernest Lawrence Quotes
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.