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Science Quote by Ernest Lawrence

"Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure!"

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“Let us cherish the hope…” is the language of a man selling tomorrow without promising it. Lawrence, the cyclotron pioneer who helped turn big physics into a team sport, isn’t offering certainty; he’s offering morale. “Cherish” does a lot of work: it frames optimism as something you actively protect against budget cuts, failed experiments, and the creeping suspicion that the frontier is closing. For a scientist, that’s a telling verb choice. It’s not faith. It’s disciplined desire.

The sentence is also a carefully engineered piece of collective rhetoric. “Let us” recruits a community, implying that discovery is not a lone genius’s epiphany but a shared posture. Lawrence helped build the modern laboratory as an institution - large machines, large staffs, large funding - and this line sounds like the human version of that architecture. Hope becomes a coordinating principle, the emotional infrastructure that keeps people soldering, calibrating, and re-running the same test.

Then there’s “next adventure,” a phrase that deliberately softens the hard edge of scientific and political reality. In Lawrence’s era, “adventure” could mean pure research, but it could also mean the escalating entanglement of physics with national power, especially as wartime science loomed. Calling it an adventure is both invitation and camouflage: it packages risk, ambition, and uncertainty in a word that tastes like possibility. The subtext is pragmatic: keep moving, keep building, stay eager. History rewards the labs that do.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lawrence, Ernest. (2026, February 19). Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-cherish-the-hope-that-the-day-is-not-far-52639/

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Lawrence, Ernest. "Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure!" FixQuotes. February 19, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-cherish-the-hope-that-the-day-is-not-far-52639/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure!" FixQuotes, 19 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-cherish-the-hope-that-the-day-is-not-far-52639/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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Ernest Lawrence (August 8, 1901 - August 27, 1958) was a Scientist from USA.

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