Famous quotes by Physicists

"Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence"

Robert Millikan, Physicist

"Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants"

Robert Millikan, Physicist

"Under these conditions, it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education"

Simon van der Meer, Physicist

"Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view"

Cecil Frank Powell, Physicist

"However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology"

Frank Tipler, Physicist

"My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes"

Robert Millikan, Physicist

"While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event"

Heinz R. Pagels, Physicist

"While at Chicago, my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time"

James Cronin, Physicist

"One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France"

James Cronin, Physicist

"My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student"

James Cronin, Physicist

"Those placed in the position which I now occupy commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them"

Cecil Frank Powell, Physicist

"We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom"

Alfred Kastler, Physicist

"On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction, rotating in opposite directions"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements"

Walther Bothe, Physicist

"The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement"

Victor Francis Hess, Physicist

"Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

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