Famous quotes by Physicists

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"Some years ago, I wrote a book called The Emperor's New Mind, and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy, and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields"

David Douglass, Physicist

"I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail, so let me not comment on that too much"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"People think of these eureka moments, and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation, and then a little realisation built on that"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality, but with consciousness that you have it"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of, say, beauty and morality"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"This book is about physics and it's about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it?"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"My own way of thinking is to ponder long, and I hope deeply on problems, and for a long time, which I keep away for years and years, and I never really let them go"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions, and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"As for morality, well, that's all tied up with the question of consciousness"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"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?"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago. The weekends I helped in the family store"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT Radiation Laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"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"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

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