Significant Quotes by Ernest Lawrence

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

— Ernest Lawrence

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

— Ernest Lawrence

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

— Ernest Lawrence

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress…

— Ernest Lawrence

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

— Ernest Lawrence

For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for…

— Ernest Lawrence

I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we…

— Ernest Lawrence

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required…

— Ernest Lawrence

Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men…

— Ernest Lawrence

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men…

— Ernest Lawrence

But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out.

— Ernest Lawrence

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most…

— Ernest Lawrence