Physicist Quotes - Page 3

• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ignorance, Science, Order

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Carl C. Gaither, January 8, 2008.

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• 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

  Humor, Vulgarity Is, Sin

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "What Is Intelligence?" by Max Miller, bigthink.com.

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• The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

  Albert Einstein

  Evil, Mean People, World

  "Torii Hunter Addresses Police Shooting in Twins HOF Speech". Associated Press, www.usatoday.com. July 16, 2016.

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Dog, Sorry

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.415, Princeton University Press

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• There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.

  Leonard Susskind

  Philosophy, Science, Reality

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• Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

  John Polkinghorne

  Religious, Knowledge, Science

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• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

  Lisa Randall

  Art, Creativity, Science

  Lisa Randall (2012). “Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe”, p.398, Random House

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• Necessity is the mother of all invention.

  Albert Einstein

  Mother, Needs, Metaphor

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• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

  Lester Levenson

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sadness

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• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

  Eugene Wigner

  Science, Law, Miracle

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Adversity introduces a man to himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Adversity

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• But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Happiness, Pain

  "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The early years, 1879-1902".

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• The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Future, Science

  Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

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