Quotes by Physicists

How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections. Frits Zernike
Thought Slow Before Imitate Others See Learn Understand How Quick Done Connections Deeper
With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected. Frits Zernike
Enthusiasm First Stage Somewhat Had Primitive Still Demonstrate Method Expected Works Received
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. Geoffrey West
Life Cities Roads Obvious Call Metaphors Forth
Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change. Geoffrey West
Change Once Ourselves Put Traded Stability Requires Away Growth Treadmill Started
Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both. Geoffrey West
Destruction Thought Feeling Own Organ Bit Ways City Some Slums My Own Both Could Lead Development Ultimately Tumor Unhealthy Special Grown
Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry. Geoffrey West
Life Me History You Will Long Live Pulse Everything Ninth Tell Pretty Per About Rate Physiology Take How Branch Mammal Mature Offspring Going Size Cent Length Much Many Level
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue. Geoffrey West
Animal Dog Energy Horse Than Cells Sustain Bigger Tissue Working Your Hard Less Harder Needed
Cities are the crucible of civilization. Geoffrey West
Cities Civilization Crucible
Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring. Geoffrey West
Cities Stay Boring Exciting
On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China. Geoffrey West
People More Individual True Powerful Than Six Just China Average Connection Four Here
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals. Geoffrey West
Our Cities Physical Individuals Just Interactions Manifestation Your Grouping
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. Geoffrey West
You Behavior Enormous Complex Complex System System Evolved City Components Emergence Constrain Laws Could Like Without Order Them Organism Resilient Number
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up. Geoffrey West
Great People Big City Magnet Up Role Sucking Plays
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science. Geoffrey West
Science Physics Paradigm Data Powerful Most Most Powerful Prediction Theory
All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter. George Gamow
Try Become Distances Considerations Kinds Physical Smaller Than Senseless Them Apply
Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way. Gerhard Herzberg
Science People Political Job Way Feel Like Dealt Who Many Groups
It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say 'thank you' for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics and chemistry have received this prize. Gerhard Herzberg
You Physics Words Chemistry Thank You Difficult Appropriate Honour Say Giants Find Some Nobel Nobel Prize Like Supreme Scientist Very Thank Prize Receive Received
If you start from nothing, it is very difficult to get anywhere. Gerhard Herzberg
You Nothing Difficult Very Get Anywhere Start
Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary. Gerhard Herzberg
Become Extraordinary Interest
I was brought up as a physicist. Gerhard Herzberg
Brought Physicist Up
Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different . Gordon Gould
History Lawyer Think Would Entirely Properly Had He Understood Been Just Different January Whole
Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration. Gregory Benford
Car Made Experiment Gave Telephone Airplane TV Computers Leading Thus Combustion Practical Inevitably Rocket Us Exploration Engine Theory Internal Electromagnetic Radio
'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety. Gregory Benford
Work Thought Trek Striking Thoughtful More Writers Most Looting Leaving Effects Behind Subtlety Notorious Star Star Trek
I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects. Gregory Benford
Best Insects Felt Always Left Specialization
The simplest way to remove carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is to grow plants - preferably trees, since they tie up more of the gas in cellulose, meaning it will not return to the air within a season or two. Plants build themselves out of air and water, taking only a tiny fraction of their mass from the soil. Gregory Benford
Water Plants Soil Will Remove Build Trees Air Way Out More Only Simplest Main Taking Mass Since Return Tie Within Up Greenhouse Tiny Meaning Themselves Grow Season Carbon Carbon Dioxide Gas Two Fraction
In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain. Gregory Benford
Food Water Drop Important Big Ocean Rich Waters Sun Sewage Cities Brown Food Chain Color Rivers Bounty Well How Govern Dump Green Hugely Tiny Where Form Sea Coastal Chain Foundation Million
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