Quotes by Physicists

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. Eric Allin Cornell
Me You Energy Distinguish Detector Various Particles Sort How Different Explained Spark Chambers Amount Basis
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. Eric Allin Cornell
Travel Learning Language Lesson Characters Thousands Had Written Perhaps Most Learned Provided Experiences Chinese Interesting Really Useful Many Proficiency
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. Eric Allin Cornell
Good Something Doing Came Being Realize Avoid Reason Hardly
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. Eric Allin Cornell
Year Every Still Passing Proves Surprises Left Us
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology. Eric Betzig
Technology Broader Adoption High-Tech Takes Prototype Huge Huge Amount Effort Move Successful Amount Imaging
The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems. Eric Betzig
Work Together Tool Systems Marry Inside High-Speed Look Make Goal Work Together Deep Deep Inside Eventual Biological
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way. Eric Betzig
You People Better Too Much Own Sense Thinking Too Honestly Other Way Having Better Off Poisoned Feel Like Read Because Makes Scientific Making Off Going Literature Much Your Start Vague
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound. Eric Betzig
War Music Time Creativity Innovation Problem World Sense Earth Solved Because Sound Eras Optimism Listen Maybe Just Romance Different Biggest Biggest Problem Much Different Things Things World War World War II
I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts. Eric Betzig
Love You Space Every Astronaut Tell Born Had Developed Mercury Name Still Go Privately Crafts Apollo Chance
Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes. Eric Betzig
Science Big Through Fads Goes Ups Crashes
There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better. Eric Betzig
Better Engineer Something Make Always
It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions. Eric Betzig
Life Time Nice See Able Driven Between Look Protein Proteins Understand Essential Interactions Really Multiple
You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild. Eric Betzig
You Subconscious Sit Wild Back Run Minutiae Never Day-To-Day Tied Up Get Your Chance
You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B. Eric Betzig
You Slow Picture Related Frame Evolving Know How Continuous Where Series Things Need
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail. Eric Betzig
You Happy Cancer Invention Become Every Think Baby President Out Stays New Like End Cure May Jail Just In The End
The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?' Eric Betzig
Time You Long Long Time Way High Temporal Physiological Study Studying Also Doing Question Cells While Them Then Manner Spatial Amount Damage Resolution
The discovery that light elements could be disintegrated by artificially accelerated particles gave an additional impetus to development work on the various methods of producing them. Ernest Walton
Work Light Gave Additional Various Could Impetus Development Particles Accelerate Methods Discovery Artificially Disintegrated Them Producing Elements
As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to the relativistic increase of mass of the particle. Ernest Walton
Faster Difficulty Increase Increases Arises Mass Particle Particles Due Size Produced
A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required. Ernest Walton
Energy Cost Rise Magnet More Advantage Particles Accelerator Linear Than Much Required Should
The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility. Ernest Walton
Responsibility Way High Nobel Due Undoubtedly Prizes Committees Heavy Esteem Which Held Conscientious
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. Ernst Mach
Time Man Light Thought First Young Nothing Doubt Everything Correction Astronomy Easily Similarly Cast Stellar Put First Time Hearing Effected Whereas Again Young Man Required Unimportant Many Whole Right
Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. Ernst Mach
Complexes Make Make Up Up Sensations Produce Bodies Elements
When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. Ernst Mach
Today Memories Youth Few Features Exception Individual Take Boy Were Existence Person Different Then Should Different Person Chain Recall Early
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. Ernst Mach
Ego Absolutely Permanent Little Bodies
Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. Ernst Mach
Matter Nothing Colours Combinations Attributes Sounds So-Called Apart Forth Body Elements Thing
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. Ernst Mach
Man Power Own Determining Point Point Of View Voluntarily His Endowed View
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