Derek Jackson Quotes

Professor Derek Ainslie Jackson, DFC, AFC, OBE, FRS, was a spectroscopist and also a jockey. Derek Jackson was one of the outstanding atomic physicists of his generation. Wikipedia

✵ 23. June 1906 – 20. February 1982

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Derek Jackson Quotes

“Never go to a public lavatory in London. I always pee in the street. You may be fined a few pounds for committing a nuisance, but in a public lavatory you risk two years in prison because a policeman in plain clothes says you smiled at him.”

Derek Jackson

as quoted by [Diana Mosley, Loved ones: pen portraits, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985, 93]

Smile , Clothes

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