Famous quotes by Physicists

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty, that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is, of course, to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons, and some of these neutrons will again produce fission"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

"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"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

"Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"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"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity, created by science"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"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"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"From my earliest days, I had a passion for science"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"But scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"There is, in my opinion, a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom, and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

"It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

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