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"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
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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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"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street."
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
"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 art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
"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."
"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."
"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"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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