God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.


Sir William Bragg

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Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2)
His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate. My ...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2)
But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddl...
SIR WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM
There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a na...
SIR WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM
They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for hi...
GENERAL EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG
Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD
There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR
These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR
There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR
It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD
I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to ...
RT. HON. SIR WILLIAM EDWARD GOSCHEN
Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON
Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE