Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Tizard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English chemist Henry Tizard.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Henry Tizard

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard was an English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led the first serious studies of UFOs.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — © Henry Tizard
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.
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