Famous quotes by Physicists

"The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms"

Johannes Stark, Physicist

"Biography is one of the new terrors of death"

John Arbuthnot, Physicist

"Law is a bottomless pit"

John Arbuthnot, Physicist

"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies"

John Arbuthnot, Physicist

"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"My head was always bubbling over with facts, and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school, and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"My freshman year of high school, I joined the chess and math clubs"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister, and I moved with my mother to San Francisco"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Between rounds of speed chess, I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language BASIC"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

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