Famous quotes by Physicists

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them"

Eugene Wigner, Physicist

"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"If you keep your mouth shut, you will never put your foot in it"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

"In fact, any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China"

Chen Ning Yang, Physicist

"Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars"

James Jeans, Physicist

"The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

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