Stamp Collecting Quotes

• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

  Dave Barry

  Would Be, Useless, Stamps

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• Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

  Mason Cooley

  Nice, Hobbies, Literature

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• All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

  Lord Kelvin

  Physics, Stamps, Divided

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• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Witty, Humorous, Science

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

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• Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

  Lord Kelvin

  Science, Physics, Stamps

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• I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Sex, Thinking, Stranger

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• That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Physics, Stamps, Collecting

  "In Defence of ‘Stamp Collecting’" by Matthew Wale, conscicom.org. June 29, 2017.

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• Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Fate, Addiction

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.80, Random House

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• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, War, Fighting

  Encyclopedia Italiana "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism" (1932)

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• Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Character, Matter, Chemicals

  "The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity," Philosophical Magazine, Sept. 1902

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• Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science, Talking, Let Me

  "Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists". Book by John Daintith, Third Edition, p. 662, 2008.

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• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Baseball, Golf, Hockey

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

  Donald Hall

  Real, Wish, Want

  Donald Hall (1994). “Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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