Home / Quotes / Quote by George P. Baker

Quote by George P. Baker

“We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.”

Quote by George P. Baker

Author

George P. Baker

George P. Baker (1903-1995) was an influential figure in an unknown field. His life and achievements are not widely documented. more

You May Also Like

“What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.”

Years Sometimes Play Periods Tragedy Tragic Elizabethan

Author:George P. Baker

“When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.”

Humans Play Literature Please Drama Dialogue Dramatic Revelations Characterization

Author:George P. Baker

“I got quite good results from protein plates.”

Results Plates Protein

Author:Gabriel Lippmann

“The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.”

Hours Series Finals Developing Operations Quarters Washing

Author:Gabriel Lippmann

“When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.”

Light White Reflection Shots Colour Selective White Light

Author:Gabriel Lippmann

“In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.”

Whole Values Cases Sensitive Colour Infinity Layers Intervals Separating Composites Thickness

Author:Gabriel Lippmann

“I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.”

Succeed Smell Toilets Westerners

Author:David Reuben

“Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.”

Done Millions Mouths Dollars West Russia Contracts Being Done Word Of Mouth

Author:David Reuben

“In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.”

Mets Computer Married Brown

Author:Kenneth G. Wilson

“One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.”

Has Beens Mines Hobbies Oboes

Author:Kenneth G. Wilson