No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

- Edward Victor Appleton

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

- Edward Victor Appleton

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

- Edward Victor Appleton

I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for …

- Edward Victor Appleton

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular adv…

- Edward Victor Appleton