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Quotes by Physicist
"This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements."
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"I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization."
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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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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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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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"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."
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"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives."
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"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."
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"Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special."
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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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"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
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"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?"
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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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"The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China."
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"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
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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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"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible."
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"For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta."
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"In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta."
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"The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer."
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"My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine."
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"Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies."
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"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
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"The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine."
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