Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett List of quotes page 1

Quotes by Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

"People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination"

"It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents."

"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his a"

"Don't set your wit against a child."

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"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do"

"That's the good part of dying when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."

"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

"You can't try to do things you simply must do them."

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