Physicist Quotes - Page 5

• Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

  Eugene Wigner

  Nature, Science, Long

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• Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

  Amit Goswami

  Spiritual, Materialism, Quantum Physics

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• Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Time, Science, Religion

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• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.293, Princeton University Press

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Science, History, Events

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Sep 03, 2011

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• Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Happy, Art, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

  Arthur Eddington

  Hope, Science, Errors

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Ch. 4), 1928.

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• Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

  Lise Meitner

  Truth, Acceptance, Science

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• In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

  Arthur Eddington

  Drama, Shadow, Ink

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Introduction), 1928.

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Different, Use

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.94, Princeton University Press

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

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

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• The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Goal, May, Fit

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• The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Littles, Mathematician, Deals

  "Analogies between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and His Los Alamos Collaborators". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 1990.

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• Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.

  Fritjof Capra

  Beautiful, Religious, Art

  "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

  Roger Penrose

  Reading, Thinking, Understanding

  Roger Penrose (2016). “The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe”, p.20, Random House

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Attitude, Character

  Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

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• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.

  Diane Sawyer

  Beautiful, Dad, Home

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• Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Play, People

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• Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

  Heinz Pagels

  Science, Vacuums, Study

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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