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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"
Paul Dirac, Physicist
"I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition"
Paul Dirac, Physicist
"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression"
Eugene Wigner, Physicist
"It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them"
Eugene Wigner, Physicist
"When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"The smaller the head, the bigger the dream"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country"
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
""It worked". (Said after witnessing the first atomic detonation)"
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
"In the material sciences, these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days"
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose"
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it"
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries"
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
"Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"The main purpose of science is simplicity, and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"My experience has been in a short 77 years, that in the end, when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective"
Edward Teller, Physicist
"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature"
Stephen Hawking, Physicist
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