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"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."
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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."

"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."

"I do not keep up with the details of particle physics."

"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
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"In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize."

"It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source."

"The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today."

"There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment."

"There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth."

"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance."

"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."
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