Famous quotes by Physicists

"But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"Shortly after I was born, he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"One cannot plan for the unexpected"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact, as a young man, worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology, and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as, of course, supervising research students"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"In and after 1964, when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968, I felt a compelling urge to make my views public"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"Severe space weather disasters caused by giant solar flares are also a potential risk in an advanced information society"

Kanya Kusano, Physicist

"I do. I worry about an extreme event. We want to protect our society from a space-weather disaster"

Kanya Kusano, Physicist

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