Famous quotes by Physicists

"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

"If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Isn't it strange that I, who have written only unpopular books, should be such a popular fellow?"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I saw science as being in harmony with humanity"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love"

Milton R. Sapirstein, Physicist

"My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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