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"Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not."
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"Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics."
"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
"Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle."
"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
"Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it."
"Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light."
"We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle."
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"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."
"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win."
"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."
"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets."
"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."
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