Johnny Ball Quotes

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
Johnny Ball

Life, Work, Age

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
Johnny Ball

Sometimes, Difficult, Seems

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.
Johnny Ball

Experience, School, Bad

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.
Johnny Ball

Government, Lost, Public

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
Johnny Ball

Children, Same, Become

There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.
Johnny Ball

Job, Single, Wind

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Entertainer

Born: May 23, 1938

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