Famous quotes by Physicists

"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

"The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language"

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

"The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases"

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

"You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"In the latter half of the last century, the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict"

Chen Ning Yang, Physicist

"In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within"

Chen Ning Yang, Physicist

"Personally, people know themselves very poorly"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician"

James Jeans, Physicist

"Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone, I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity, so they spin around their direction on motion"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"After the knowledge of and obedience to the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"And these little things may not seem like much, but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"If you never failed, you never tried anything new"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"God does not play dice"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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