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# Clinton Davisson

Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment. Davisson shared the Nobel Prize with George Paget Thomson, who independently discovered electron diffraction at about the same time as Davisson.

## Quotes

* Discoveries in physics are made when the time for making them is ripe, and not before.
** Davisson, Clinton (1937). "The Discovery of Electron Waves". Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company (1965).
* Of course, if electrons were waves there would be no difficulty. We think we understand the regular reflection of light and of x-rays--and we should understand the reflec- tion of electrons as well if electrons were only waves instead of particles. This observation though true does not seem a particularly valuable one. It is rather as if one were to see a rabbit climbing a tree, and were to say, "Well, that is rather a strange thing for a rabbit to be doing, but after all there is really nothing to get excited about. Cats climb trees --so that, if the rabbit were only a cat, we would understand its behavior perfectly." Of course, the explanation might be that what we took to be a rabbit was not a rabbit at all, but was actually a cat. Is it possible that we are mistaken about electrons? Is it possible that we have been wrong all this time in supposing that they are particles, and that actually they are waves? Well, 1 do not need to enumerate to you the many reasons we have for believing--I may say for knowing--that electrons are actually particles.
** Davisson, Clinton (May 1928). "Are Electrons Waves?". J. Franklin Institute 205 (5): 599. DOI:10.1016/S0016-0032(28)90979-5.
# Hans Georg Dehmelt

Hans Georg Dehmelt (born September 9, 1922 – 7 March 2017, in Görlitz, Germany) is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they both received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989. Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment.

## Quotes

* In closing, I should like to cite a line from William Blake. “To see a world in a grain of sand - - - ” and allude to a possible parallel to see worlds in an electron.
** concluding his Nobel lecture referring to the richness of the physics of subatomic particles.
# Val Logsdon Fitch

Val Logsdon Fitch (March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015) was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered. This demolished the faith that physicists had that natural laws were governed by symmetry.

## Quotes

* But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.
** Nobel Prize Autobiography, from Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1980, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, (Nobel Foundation), Stockholm (1981).
* At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory. But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.
** Nobel Prize Autobiography (1981).

## External links

* Autobiographical notes at Nobelprize.org
# William Alfred Fowler

William Alfred "Willie" Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe".

## Quotes

* It is the great glory of the quest for human knowledge that, while making some small contribution to that quest, we can also continue to learn and to take pleasure in learning.
** William A. Fowler's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983.
# Jerome Isaac Friedman

Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor, "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.", work which showed an internal structure for protons later known to be quarks. Friedman sits on the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

## Quotes
### "Will Innovation Flourish in the Future?," 2002

Jerome Friedman. "Will Innovation Flourish in the Future?," keynote address at a conference titled "Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine," L'Aquila, Italy, July 29-August 4, 2002.
* Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.
* Creativity is the basis of all innovation, and although it is doubtful that it can be taught, creativity should be nurtured in those who have it.
* Young people should be given good support and freedom in their research. They are the greatest source of scientific creativity because they are not as committed to existing scientific orthodoxy, and they have the energy and enthusiasm to push new ideas.
* We should willingly take risks in supporting new projects. The tendency is to play it safe when funding is low, but we need to remember that the greatest risks have the greatest payoffs.
* Excessive bureaucracy is distracting, time-consuming, and destructive to creativity.
* It is clear to me that under the right conditions, future technologies will be created that we cannot even imagine.
# Mark Meadows

Mark Randall Meadows (born July 28, 1959) is an American politician who served as the 29th White House chief of staff from 2020 to 2021. He served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Meadows chaired the House Freedom Caucus from 2017 to 2019. He was considered one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress before his appointment as chief of staff.

## Quotes

* We’re gonna take back our country. 2012 is the time we are going to send Mr. Obama home, to Kenya or wherever it is. We’re gonna do it.
** June 9, 2012 campaign speech (Itkowitz, Colby (February 28, 2019). "Videos of Mark Meadows saying ‘send Obama home to Kenya’ resurface hours after he’s accused of racist stunt". The Washington Post. ; Cummings, William (February 28, 2019). "After denying racism, videos of Meadows vowing to send Obama 'home to Kenya' resurface". USA Today. ; Swaine, Jon (February 28, 2019). "Republican who denied he was racist suggested Obama was born in Africa". The Guardian. ; Bowden, John (February 27, 2019). "Clip of Meadows saying send Obama back to 'Kenya or wherever' resurfaces after clash with Tlaib". The Hill. )
* Question: The question I have, if you’re sent to Congress, will you pursue some kind of investigation to find out whether or not this, uh, guy is really a citizen and entitled to those authorities? Meadows: Yes. If we do our job from a grassroots perspective, we won’t have to worry about it. We’ll send him back home to Kenya or wherever it is. We’ll send him back home.
** June 12, 2012, during a forum held by the Blue Ridge Tea Party Patriots conservative group (Itkowitz, Colby (February 28, 2019). "Videos of Mark Meadows saying ‘send Obama home to Kenya’ resurface hours after he’s accused of racist stunt". The Washington Post. ; Swaine, Jon (February 28, 2019). "Republican who denied he was racist suggested Obama was born in Africa". The Guardian. )
* [Trump did a good job at the meeting] laying out a conservative agenda
* [but] I got an interview I got to run to
** According to "Trump Manages To Give Some House GOPers More Heartburn In Hill Meeting" (July 7, 2016)
# Naana Eyiah Quansah

Naana Eyiah Quansah (born 14 February 1963) is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the New Patriotic Party. She is currently the member of parliament for Gomoa Central Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana. She is currently the Deputy Minister for Interior.

## Quotes

* I expressed profound gratitude to the delegates for the confidence and trust reposed in me and assured them that I would work with everyone to ensure peace and harmony.
* The internal elections camps is over and all campaign camps must be dissolved to assist the party to form one strong campaign team, that would help the party to defeat the NDC to continue the good works and improve the lives of the Gomoa Central Constituents.
* The power is not in my hand, but I can speak to the Minister; he is the ultimate decider. Before leaving this ministry, I knew we will go up to 38 or 40 per cent of the women getting positions as commanders.
* There is a saying that if you leave something for a woman, she takes better care more of it than the men. But, of course, we are not saying the men are not good, but we know our situation as mothers, so I know the minister is going to do something about it.
# Queenstar Pokuah Sawyerr

Queenstar Maame Pokua Sawyerr (born July 1st, 1964) is a Ghanaian politician and the former deputy Central Regional Minister of Ghana.

## Quotes

* So this is a loan scheme and we have an account at the Kwanyako Rural Bank. They can go and check the MPLS, it is there.
* For this year, I should have done it sometime in September, however, because of the Coronarivus disease (COVID-19), I had to do the distribution in bits.
* Last year I did it, two years ago I did it, three years ago I did it and four years I did it though my party is not in power.
* The activity she is engaged in did not start today as the Maame Pokua Loan Scheme (MPLS) has been in operation and supporting women for the past 12 years.
* Three weeks ago when the first distribution was done, members of the ruling NPP went to town and accused me of distributing papers because I had no money.
* The NPP in the Agona East knows of my interventions in the constituency, and therefore their claims that they do not know the monies I am giving out are loans are lies.
* These children do not vote so nobody could accuse me of soliciting votes from them.
* Therefore I decided to take the money along during the second distribution so I could demonstrate to the NPP and those who claimed I had packed papers in the boxes that indeed I am giving out physical cash.

## External links

* https://www.parliament.gh/mps?mp=32
# Pier Giacomo Grampa

Pier Giacomo Grampa (28 October 1936) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Lugano.

## Quotes

* There is a lack of fundamental ethical formation, therefore, we must be concerned with forming the conscience of Europeans before coming to this sort of voting, otherwise, there will be a gradual disintegration of the legacy of values that have characterized life for almost 2,000 years.
** Swiss Back Legal Rights for Same-Sex Couples (6 June 2005) Zenit
# Fati Seidu

Fati Seidu is a Ghanaian politician who was the member of the Second parliament of the Fourth republic representing the Bawku Central constituency in the Upper East Region of Ghana.

## Quotes

* My product is now very popular thanks to these trade shows and exhibitions with about 70% of my customers as coming through the fairs. My participation in these trade shows and fairs have helped me to significantly improve upon my packaging.
* Until receiving training in business management and financial management from REP, I was regularly misapplying the little money I was making from the business. I didn’t know I had to pay myself. I thought the company or the business is mine so I can do this or that. But I’ve learnt that I need to do proper record keeping which can even help me to get loan support.
* I am accordingly demanding that a proper recount of the election results be conducted to determine the true winner.
* While the President struggles to fulfill his many promises, the elected officers are working to bring him down. The only time the executives come to the office is when there is money to share among themselves, after an issue comes up then they go back to sleep in their houses.
# Tony Snow

Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008) was a White House Press Secretary for the George W. Bush administration. He succeeded Scott McClellan, becoming the third individual to serve in that position under Bush. It was the second Presidential administration to which Snow has been employed, having worked for President George H. W. Bush as chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs.

## Sourced

* Having said that, I don't want to hug the tar baby of trying to comment on the program — the alleged program — the existence of which I can neither confirm nor deny.
** White House Press Briefing (2006-05-16).
* One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.
** Quoted in Al Kamen, "You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe," washingtonpost.com (2006-07-06).
* Okay, we will divide the first [of two questions] and let the second die a crib death.
** White House Press Briefing (2006-07-06).
* Well, thank you for the Hezbollah view.
** White House Press Briefing (2006-07-18). Said to Helen Thomas, White House reporter and syndicated columnist.
* Reporter: Wait a minute. You said yourself, correctly, that both Bush 41 and Clinton had talks with Hafez al-Hassad — Snow: Which were blazingly pointless.
** White House Press Briefing (2006-07-19).
* Look, I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.
** Quoted on CNN, concerning sexually explicit e-mails and instant messages sent by Congressman Mark Foley to congressional pages that were underage. (2006-10-02).
* What Senator Kerry ought to do first is apologize to the troops. The clear implication here is if you flunk out, if you don't study hard, if you don't do your homework, if you don't make an effort to be smart and you don't do well, you "get stuck in Iraq." But an extraordinary thing has happened since September 11th, which is a lot of people — America's finest — have willingly agreed to volunteer their services in a mission that they know is dangerous, but is also important. And Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who have given their lives in this.
** White House Press Briefing (2006-10-31).
* Why doesn't Senator Kerry, rather than saying, I meant to put in the word, "us" — and you try to put in "us" here, left out the word "us" — and if you don't — if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq. Where does "us" fit in? You don't "us" get stuck? I don't understand. It just — it doesn't scan here.
** White House Press Briefing, on Kerry's claim to have meant "you get us stuck in Iraq." (2006-11-01).
# Gabriel Zubeir Wako

Gabriel Zubeir Wako (27 February 1941) is a Sudanese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* The Church will continue its work of evangelization and Christian witness as well as human development. As for the rest, it is difficult to predict.
** Central government and South Sudan respect 2005 peace accord, Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum, tells Fides (20 November 2009)
# Daniel Gooch

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet (24 August 1816 – 15 October 1889) was an English railway locomotive and transatlantic cable engineer. He was the first Superintendent of Locomotive Engines on the Great Western Railway from 1837 to 1864 and its chairman from 1865 until his death in 1889. Between 1865 and 1885 Gooch was Conservative MP for Cricklade.

## Quotes

* Perfect communication established between England and America; God grant it will be a lasting source of benefit to our country.
** Cable message sent from Heart's Content, Newfoundland to Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on completion of the first successful trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, 27 July 1866. John R. Raynes (1921), Engines and Men, Goodall & Suddick, p. 89, Wikidata Q115680227
# Proof

Proof is sufficient evidence or argument for the truth of a proposition.

## Quote

* "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Ah, that was easy," says man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys.
** Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Chapter 6
* PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
** Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
* You may prove anything by figures.
** Quoted by Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, No. 2; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 636.
* A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
** Richard Feynman, in his Nobel Lecture "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics" (11 December 1965)
* The being and existence of the thing itself, is what I call the original truth. A credible man vouching his knowledge of it is a good proof; but if another equally credible do witness it from his report, the testimony is weaker: and a third that attests the hearsay of an hearsay is yet less considerable. So that in traditional truths, each remove weakens the force of the proof: and the more hands the tradition has successively passed through, the less strength and evidence does it receive from them.
** John Locke Esssay on Humane Understanding Book IV Chapter 17
* You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
** John Morley, Rousseau (1876), p. 402.
* For when one's proofs are aptly chosen, Four are as valid as four dozen.
** Matthew Prior, Alma (1718), Canto I. End.
* Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
** Paul of Tarsus, I Thessalonians 5: 21.
* quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
** What is asserted gratuitously may be denied gratuitously.
** Variant: What is asserted without proof (evidence, reason), may (can) be denied (dismissed) without proof (evidence, reason).
** Anonymous maxim, widely used since at least the early 19th century (e.g. The Classical Journal , Vol. 40 (1829), p. 312).

## See also

* Evidence
# William Stephenson

Sir William Samuel Stephenson CC MC DFC (born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, 23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989) was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coordination (BSC) for the western allies during World War II. He is best known by his wartime intelligence code name, Intrepid. Many people consider him to be one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond.

## Quotes

* After one conference with the U.S. War Plans Division, he heard Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, tell a Senate committee there was "absolutely no intention that America should enter the war." Nonetheless, that day’s secret discussions centered on a projected American army of five million troops within two years. Marshall dared not disclose this. Nor could the president announce a "Germany first" policy.
** Quoted in William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid (1976), ch. 21

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on William Stephenson on Wikipedia
# Sheri-D Wilson

Sheri-D Wilson Canadian Poet, Speaker & Podcaster splits her time between Vancouver, BC & Calgary, AB. SHERI-D WILSON is the proliﬁc author of 14 books, 4 short ﬁlms and 3 word & music albums. Her work has received many awards and honours, including the Order of Canada, an honorary Doctor of Letters – Honoris Causa from Kwantlen University, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Calgary, the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and the Women of Vision Award.
This inventive artist has now set her sights on the speculative poetry genre and has spent the last seven years writing this opus work: The ONEIRONAUT.
www.sheridwilson.com

## Quotes
### Swerve (1993)

On Being a Poet
"Relationships are good for at least two poems—
One at the beginning and one at the end."

### Re:Zoom (2005)

"I want to love the daylights out of you."

### Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

Aphrodite's Aphrodisiac
"The world is my oyster and now I’ll take a shower of stars."
Gypsy Madonna from Florence on the Opening Night of Lorca
"I would crush a priceless pearl and drink it, to stay in this moment for all time."
In Search of a Metaphysical Rock Star
"It was as though the lifeline on her palm had fallen between the cracks of the impossible and the arbitrary".
* Inverted heart, becomes the testicles of a man.
** "Heart"
* How do I love thee? Let me count the days. If there are 50 ways to leave your lover then there are 50 ways to be left.
** "Heart"
* There is an afterlife to love and there is love in the afterlife.
** "Heart"
* Did you know orchids employ trickery to attract insects? They spray a deceptive scent resembling insect pheromones. Bad flower! Bad flower! Liar! Liar! Petals on fire!
** "Heart"

### Open Letter: Woman Against Violence Against Women (2014)

* Trigger Warning! Rape is a rape is a rape.
** "Exhibit G - Hidden in Plain Sight"

## External links

* Sheri-D Wilson's official website
* Calgary Spoken Word Society
# Ninian Smart

Roderick Ninian Smart (6 May 1927 – 29 January 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. He is best known for his seven-dimensional definition of religion.

## Quotes

* No religion, it seems to me, contains the whole truth. I think it's mad to think that there is nothing to learn from other traditions and civilizations. If you accept that other religions have something to offer and you learn from them, that is what you become: a Buddhist-Episcopalian or a Hindu-Muslim or whatever.
** Scott London, The Future of Religion: An Interview with Ninian Smart.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Ninian Smart on Wikipedia