Quotes by Physicists

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives. Brian Greene
Science Quality Benefit Our Our Lives Immediately Devices How Affects Lives Appreciate
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists. Brian Greene
Life Work Time Walk Every Unknown Parent Know Talk Knows How Scientists Begin Children Want Little Explorers Things
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. Brian Greene
Nature Reality Law Sometimes Guards Secrets Horizon Physical True Beyond True Nature Just Grip Her
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression. Brian Greene
Mathematics Language Progression Follow Finely Points Like Well Arranged Very Five Tuned Which Patterns Regular Regularly Describe Star Numbers
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space. Brian Greene
Space Big Universe Extra Other Slice Our String String Theory Dimension Ours Would Would-Be Some Cosmic Bread Which Theory Displaced Loaf
When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula. Brian Greene
Work You Car Drive Energy Some Mass Does Motion Accord Form Einstein Burns Formula Converting Produce Your Engine Gasoline
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit. C. V. Raman
Science Try Language Will Unnatural Immoral Spirit Facts Feel Miss Know Foreign Foreign Language Children Teach
I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it. Carlo Rubbia
Stubborn Know Efforts Want Achieving Dedicate
It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before lasers were discovered. The ideas were all there; just, nobody put it together. Charles H. Townes
Together Strange Somebody Before Way Put Nobody Ideas Involved Known Because Were Years Discovered Just Laser
The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous. Chen-Ning Yang
Great Physics Law Unlike Classical Fact Importance Practical Continuous Discrete Any Which Used Derives Reason Symmetry
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds. David Gross
Mother Father Our Kinds Self-Confidence Thus Ideas Equals Intellectual Greatly Children Interest Us Treated
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. Edward Teller
Life Visible Slowly Only Catastrophe Wrong Clearly Improves Goes Fast
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. Edward Teller
Would Threat Russian Hydrogen No Regrets Pursued Had Real Very Regrets Speaking Now Bomb
Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi
Knowledge Ignorance Better Never Than
In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can - who thinks they can use what you have to offer. Eric Betzig
Time Good You Somebody Reputation Find Good Reputation Only Institution Know Opinion Real Go Up Offer Any In My Opinion Mean Use Who Company Asset Right Belly Thinks
It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too. Eugene Wigner
Problem Nice Too Would Computer Like Know Understand Understands
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. Eugene Wigner
Natural Language Complexities Laws Through Arise Natural Laws Use Expression
It's always good news when you're closer to the truth. Fabiola Gianotti
Truth Good News You Good News Always Closer
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. Freeman Dyson
Work Business People Will Become Snake Rose Engineering Every Tools Thousands Thousands Of People Genetic Genetic Engineering Devote Accessible Amateur Happen Skilled Dedicated Who Now Professionals Lives Lizard Imagine
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson
Good Engineer Few Engineering Design Possible Prima Ideas Makes Scientist Person Who Original Works Original Ideas
The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. Freeman Dyson
Pain Remembered Child Childbirth
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. Freeman Dyson
Life Fear Better Live Than Get Mugged
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. Freeman Dyson
Future People Predict Thinking Hopes About Purpose Raise
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. Freeman Dyson
Science Argument Become Say Wrong Because Climate Politically Politically Incorrect Different Unfortunately Things Incorrect
We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy. Geoffrey West
Innovation Wealth Creation Cities Facilitate Physicist Entropy Ideas Doing Interaction Order Form Create Viewpoint Enhance Growth
Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered. Gerhard Herzberg
Knowledge Science Our Horizons More Pursue Because Discovered Much
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