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Quotes by Physicist
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
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"If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it."
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"On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron."
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"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose."
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"I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time."
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"In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store."
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"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
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"I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity."
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"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
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"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."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
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"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."
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"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."
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"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
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"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you."
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"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."
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"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
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"I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value."
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"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."
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"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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"Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition."
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"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
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"At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion."
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"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."
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"Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction."
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"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
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"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."
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"The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods."
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