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Quotes by Physicist
"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 then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists."
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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."
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"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?"
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"What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars."
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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses."
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"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible."
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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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"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years."
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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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"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind."
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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
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"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."
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"I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power."
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"But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy."
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"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."
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"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
Love,
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"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
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"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."
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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
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"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."
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"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction."
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"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."
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"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."
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"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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"Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives."
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"Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed."
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"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
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