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Quotes by Physicist
"I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems."
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"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."
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"For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me."
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"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
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"Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will."
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"I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
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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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"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose."
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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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"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."
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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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"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
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"Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers."
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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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"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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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
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"After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life."
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"The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest."
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"A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth."
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"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."
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"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
Will,
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"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."
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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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"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"
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"I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income."
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"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."
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"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."
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"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
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"From my earliest days I had a passion for science."
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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."
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"Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce."
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