George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
views joy stage
From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.
thinking two helping
You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.
eye wrinkles
There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open.
patriotism shows
Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show
audience
I love to entertain an audience.
ignorance knowledge long
To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.
happiness home wife
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
coffee science shirts
Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
encouragement wife tonight
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
war successful green-world
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
science kicking taste
Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.
may matter foundation
To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.
safety people incentives
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.
loss socialism slave
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.