1323 quotes by physicists for you to enjoy

Because I've been a full professor doing research and lecturing at the University of California, I didn't have a lot of time to write, so I have always used my unconscious a great deal to do the really heavy lifting. Gregory Benford

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you. Gregory Benford

You Ideas Actually

Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions. Gregory Benford

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones. Hans Adolf Krebs

Life Relationship Relations Circumstance Evolution Evolved Some Features Higher Simpler Stem Between Concept Course Years Existence According Gradually Common Different Forms Organisms Millions Millions Of Years

The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes. Heinrich Rohrer

Generation Will Values Mistakes Awareness Correct Must Weaknesses Given New Ideals Also Scientific Enable New Generation Human Just Skills Researchers

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research. Heinrich Rohrer

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena. Heinrich Rohrer

The scientists do not get enough help, enough encouragement, to change their field from time to time because the pressure is too high or is to perform something. And once you start in a new field, you are a nobody to start with, you see. Heinrich Rohrer

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter. Hermann von Helmholtz

Nature Property Matter Older Indeed Indestructible Fine Unchangeable Quantity Very Heat Essential Substance Which View Fundamental

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. Hermann von Helmholtz

Natural Law Stated Thorough Ease Laws More Exhibit Exists Difference Which Conformity Natural Phenomena Then Show Products Comparative Phenomena

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet. Hermann von Helmholtz

Other Spiral Brought Magnet Magnetic Steel Wire Pieces Attracts Becomes Iron Current Which Placed Then Electrical Near Copper

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. Hermann von Helmholtz

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. Hermann von Helmholtz

Thought Laws Faculty Call Discovering Them Us Reason Innate Applying

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work. Hermann von Helmholtz

Work Fall Before Must Remains Weight Longer Doing Fallen Sink Height Produce Deep Gravity Necessarily Raised

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. Hermann von Helmholtz

Time Fire Striking Impact Some Case Steel Imperfectly Instance Powerful Also Well Hammer Friction Iron Heat Blows Bar Against Elastic Produce Worked Produced Bodies Flint

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

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

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science. Ivar Giaever

Science Word Nothing Scientific Incontrovertible

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