Famous quotes by Physicists

"By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first"

Walther Bothe, Physicist

"The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest"

Victor Francis Hess, Physicist

"Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out"

Victor Francis Hess, Physicist

"In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent"

Victor Francis Hess, Physicist

"The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset"

Simon van der Meer, Physicist

"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943"

Simon van der Meer, Physicist

"After developing a primitive theory (1968), I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR"

Simon van der Meer, Physicist

"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics"

James Cronin, Physicist

"The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser"

Gordon Gould, Physicist

"Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different "

Gordon Gould, Physicist

"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine"

Heinz R. Pagels, Physicist

"Science shows us what exists, but not what to do about it"

Heinz R. Pagels, Physicist

"At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE)"

Simon van der Meer, Physicist

"The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors, which distorted the result?"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"When the violation of parity was discovered, I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays"

James Cronin, Physicist

"The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research"

James Cronin, Physicist

"Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer"

James Cronin, Physicist

"But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life, I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again, probably the same damn thing would happen"

Gordon Gould, Physicist

"How much more must this be so in my own case, for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers"

Cecil Frank Powell, Physicist

"Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts"

Heinz R. Pagels, Physicist

"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring, and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude"

Simon van der Meer, Physicist

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