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1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness
2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps
3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose
4– John Bogle , Investing
5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative
6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort
7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction
8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing
9– Albert Camus, Hope
10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference
11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation
12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening
13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions
14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life
15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself
16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money
17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride
18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means
19– George Eliot, Regrets
20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self
22– Malcolm Forbes, Character
23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality
24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity
25– Thomas Fuller, Hope
26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony
27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity
28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender
29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure
30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles
31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort
32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity
33– William James, Attitude
34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle
35– Helen Keller, Changing the World
36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort
37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work
38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work
39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life
40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience
41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge
42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work
43– David McKay, Challenge
44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect
45– Louis Nizer, Religion
46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity
47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals
48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes
49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams
50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear
51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement
52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses
53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness
54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others
55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers
56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself
57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity
58– John Steinbeck, Leadership
59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential
60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself
61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds
63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes
64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred
65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future
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Advantages of Modern Life
Arthur Compton |
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"Despite some of the horrors and barbarisms of modern life which appall and grieve us, life has - or has the potential of - such richness, joy, and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams." |
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Arthur Compton (1892 - 1962), American Physicist |
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One of many obscure scientists who had a profound effect on modern society, Compton was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb and atomic energy. He was co-winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery that X-rays and gamma rays can increase their wavelength due to photon and electron scattering – now known as the Compton Effect. This discovery helped to validate Einstein’s radical Quantum Theory, now the basis of modern physics. In 1941, at the beginning of World War II, Compton was chairman of a National Academy of Sciences committee charged with investigating the military potential of atomic energy. He and Ernest Lawrence initiated the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb. Compton also helped to develop the first self-sustaining atomic chain reaction, which led to the development of nuclear energy.
Born in Wooster, Ohio, Compton’s older brother, Karl, was also a physicist. Compton received his doctorate from Princeton in 1916. He became head of the physics department at Washington University in St. Louis in 1920 before moving to the University of Chicago in 1923. In 1945 he left the University of Chicago to return to Washington University as chancellor; he was professor of natural history there from 1953 until his retirement in 1961.
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