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Quotes by Physicist
"So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity."
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"In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within."
9
"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
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"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."
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"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
8
"Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers."
8
"In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality."
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"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you."
8
"I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power."
8
"The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science."
8
"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."
8
"However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute."
8
"In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent."
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"Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities."
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"It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system."
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"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
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"I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science."
7
"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
7
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
7
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
7
"We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines."
7
"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
7
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
7
"Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect."
7
"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."
7
"Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist."
7
"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."
7
"I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results."
7
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
7
"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
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"The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases."
7
"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
7
"It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
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"Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment."
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