Best 6 quotes of John Henry Carver on MyQuotes

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.