Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Julius Sumner Miller

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American physicist Julius Sumner Miller.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Julius Sumner Miller was an American physicist and television personality. He is best known for his work on children's television programs in North America and Australia.

American - Physicist | May 17, 1909 - April 14, 1987

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I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

Julius Sumner Miller

What is needed is competence first and enthusiasm first. There is nothing second! Although each or one of these alone is a good start, one without the other is impotent. But if I had a choice I would have enthusiasm first.

Julius Sumner Miller

Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it - you know, get excited about it - and second, that you have fun with it. That's important. Otherwise, you see, your work becomes nothing but an idle chore. Then, you hate the life you live.

Julius Sumner Miller

The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

Julius Sumner Miller

If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.

Julius Sumner Miller

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

Julius Sumner Miller

The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.

Julius Sumner Miller

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Julius Sumner Miller

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