Robert Oppenheimer
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.
Niels Bohr
Show 9 QuotesA physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Alexander von Humboldt
Show 8 QuotesIdeas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.
Richard Feynman
Show 9 QuotesTell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!
John Wheeler
Show 7 QuotesWe live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Erwin Schrödinger
Show 5 QuotesQuantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
Werner Heisenberg
Show 4 QuotesThe first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
Max Planck
Show 4 QuotesTruth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Show 2 QuotesIt is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Galileo Galilei
Show 5 QuotesAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Roger Penrose
Show 6 QuotesQuantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense
Charles Kettering
Show 5 QuotesNo one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Show 5 QuotesPerhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
1Linus Pauling
Show 1 QuotesThe best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas.
Richard P. Feynman
Show 2 QuotesThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
C. V. Raman
Show 5 QuotesI would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Show 5 QuotesSmooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
David Bohm
Show 5 QuotesIndividuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
Daniel Bernoulli
Show 4 QuotesIt would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Nature has to be felt.
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.
The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.
The present is the only thing that has no end.
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.