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Ivar Giaever Quotes
Ivar Giaever Quotes
Ivar Giaever
Norwegian
Physicist
Born:
Apr 5
,
1929
Field
Good
Make
Science
Win
You
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Martin H. Fischer
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Werner Heisenberg
If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
Ivar Giaever
You
Experiment
Out
Physicist
Wrong
Sake
Were
Heaven
Cut
Then
Theory
Agree
Here
Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.
Ivar Giaever
Religion
Money
Better
Important
Become
Spend
Ways
Correct
Temperature
About
Only
Better Ways
Support
New
Global
Know
Global Warming
Frequently
Scientists
Hear
Effect
New Religion
Whether
Warming
Really
Who
Actual
Number
There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.
Ivar Giaever
Physics
Would
Finite
Finite Number
Point
Main
Know
Were
Them
Theories
Number
When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.
Ivar Giaever
Myself
Good
People
Old
Some People
Living
Good Living
Possible
Some
Physicists
New
Make
Years
Discovered
York
New York
Where
Found
I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.
Ivar Giaever
Future
Science
Field
Inventions
Finite
Resulting
Boundless
Come
Know
However
End
Maybe
Really
'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
Ivar Giaever
Science
Word
Nothing
Scientific
Incontrovertible
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
Ivar Giaever
You
Creative
Win
Patient
Stubborn
Nobel
Self-Confident
Curious
Skeptical
Lucky
Competitive
Need
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