Famous quotes by Physicists

"My father, who had lost a brother fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Basing my conclusions on experience, I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei"

Walther Bothe, Physicist

"Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist"

Walther Bothe, Physicist

"In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation"

Walther Bothe, Physicist

"In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag, I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization, and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"At this time, I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"At that time, I had complete confidence in Russian policy, and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths, the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines"

James Van Allen, Physicist

"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur"

James Van Allen, Physicist

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