Famous quotes by Physicists

"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family"

Simon van der Meer, Physicist

"The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better"

James Cronin, Physicist

"I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool"

James Cronin, Physicist

"I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison"

James Cronin, Physicist

"There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance"

Gordon Gould, Physicist

"That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics"

Gordon Gould, Physicist

"My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators"

Simon van der Meer, Physicist

"The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods"

Cecil Frank Powell, Physicist

"I like to browse in occult bookshops, if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science"

Heinz R. Pagels, Physicist

"I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas"

Alfred Kastler, Physicist

"We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven"

James Cronin, Physicist

"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System"

James Cronin, Physicist

"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University"

James Cronin, Physicist

"In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country"

James Cronin, Physicist

"I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now"

Gordon Gould, Physicist

"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays"

James Cronin, Physicist

"We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force; we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"In the absence of a magnetic field, the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation"

Pieter Zeeman, Physicist

"When there were financial difficulties, they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

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