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"Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light."

"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."

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

"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."

"An immovable object and an unstoppable force don't exist in universe which ruled by single ruler."

"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."

"If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it."

"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
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"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."

"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science."

"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."

"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself."

"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."

"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."

"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."

"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."

"How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments."

"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
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