Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Victor Appleton

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sir Edward Victor Appleton was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911.

English - Physicist | September 6, 1892 - April 21, 1965

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I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.

Edward Victor Appleton

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

Edward Victor Appleton

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Edward Victor Appleton

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

Edward Victor Appleton

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Victor Appleton

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