Thepublic Quotes

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Joseph Rotblat

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Myrna Loy

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

Thomas Jefferson

A scientist has the additional responsibility that comes with being a specialist: explaining science to the public, advising of its usefulness and benefits, and warning of its dangers and disadvantages. This is the responsibility of any specialist.

Larkin Kerwin

In long intervals I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

Edwin H. Land : Science, And Public Policy (9 November 1991) by Richard L. Garwin

Edwin H. Land

The slogan Stop climate change is a very public advertisement of absolute total ignorance as it is not cognisant of history, archaeology, geology, astronomy, ocean sciences, atmospheric sciences and the life sciences.

Ian Plimer

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

David Herbert Donald

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

Mark Twain

The public is a part of my real life.

Placido Domingo

They had their cynical code worked out. The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.

George Orwell

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Claire McCaskill

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition. Since, under present circumstances, free and unhindered discussion of these problems has come under a powerful taboo, I consider the foundation of this magazine to be an important public service.

Albert Einstein

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Lance Ito

In the world today, real faith has in most case been re-placed by public opinion.

Leo Tolstoy

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers. War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for want of a public.

George Eliot

His death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

Samuel Johnson