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"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
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"Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield."
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"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
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"The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired."
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"Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle."
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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."
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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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"In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons."
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"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
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"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
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"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
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"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."
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"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
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"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
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"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
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"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."
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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."
Men
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
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"No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite."
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