Famous quotes by Physicists

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning"

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The environment is everything that isn't me"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

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