"The beaver told the rabbit as they stared……" — Charles H. Townes
"The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine"
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15 Quotes by Charles H. Townes
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When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.
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It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.
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I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.
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Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological…
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At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As…
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Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.
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The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and…
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There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.
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The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small…
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Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
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I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.
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I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would…
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