Physicist Quotes: Wisdom from the World of Physics (Page 2)

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning"

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

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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

"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

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

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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"So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look.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

"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

"Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization"

Klaus Fuchs, 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

"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability"

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, 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

"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

"Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity"

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

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