Quotes by Physicists - Page 5

The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

Universe consists of frozen light.

David Bohm

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. - Albert Einstein, letter of February 5, 1921

Albert Einstein

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

James Clerk Maxwell

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Richard Feynman

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Albert Einstein

The laws of physics could be like an onion, with new laws becoming operational as we probe new scales. We simply don't know!

Richard Feynman

Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... leave open the question whether it will be possible to satisfy the claims of the two theories without at the same time determining the Sommerfeld fine-structure constant.

Werner Heisenberg

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much

Blaise Pascal

Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to the waiting minions below.

Brian Cox

One thing we have learned is this: bringing compassionate, unflinching awareness to gender dynamics in groups and communities is a remarkably powerful place to begin. As in all spiritual practice, deepening awareness is itself transformative.

William Keepin

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Blaise Pascal

Religion is a culture of faith science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions.

Paul A.M. Dirac

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Niels Bohr

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

Blaise Pascal

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

Pascal

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein

As Sommerfeld said in his famous text "Spectral Lines and Atomic Constitution," on which a generation of physicists learned the subject, "In the fine structure constant e is the representative of the electron theory, h the appropriate representative of the quantum theory, c comes from relativity and characterizes it in contrast to classical theory.

Emilio Segrè

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of sound, heat and light beat upon its feeble body, its sensitive nerve-fibres quiver, the muscles contract and relax in obedience: a gasp, a breath, and in this act a marvelous little engine, of inconceivable delicacy and complexity of construction, unlike any on earth, is hitched to the wheel-work of the Universe.

Nikola Tesla

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

John Archibald Wheeler

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Richard Feynman

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Albert Einstein

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Blaise Pascal

We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even...Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

Victor J. Stenger

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Albert Einstein

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Take it from me, an authority on expertise: You can't trust experts.

Jeff Schmidt

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

George Gamow

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and separate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?

Julian Schwinger

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.

Leonard Susskind

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

Morris F. Cohen

There is nothing you cannot turn into your favor.

Andrei Ludu

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

Albert Einstein

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Alan Lightman

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

George Gabriel Stokes

When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.

Freeman Dyson

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