Famous quotes by Physicists

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"There's two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

"Ignorance is never better than knowledge"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

"There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Since the end of the Cold War, two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

"The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

"The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

"In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

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