Famous John Pipkin Quotes

  • The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past. – John Pipkin

    The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.– John Pipkin

  • It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere. – John Pipkin

    It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.– John Pipkin

  • It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days. – John Pipkin

    It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.– John Pipkin

  • Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery. – John Pipkin

    Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.– John Pipkin

  • Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy. – John Pipkin

    Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.– John Pipkin

  • The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable. – John Pipkin

    The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.– John Pipkin