Famous quotes by Physicists

"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history"

David Douglass, Physicist

"However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the Earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!"

David Douglass, Physicist

"As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject"

David Douglass, Physicist

"This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis"

David Douglass, Physicist

"One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis"

David Douglass, Physicist

"If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing"

David Douglass, Physicist

"When I moved to Stanford, I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum Hall discovery"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things, easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"Over the course of time, this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts, and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry, I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world, which motivates my scientific thinking to this day"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store, and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing, such as tees and small glass bulbs"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

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