Quotes by Physicists

It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace. Shuji Nakamura

Good Competition Drive Research Faster High-Quality Pace Forward Helps

I have been very fortunate to be supported by many people in my career. I also appreciate my personal friends, business friends, and my family who have been patient and understanding of my long working hours. Shuji Nakamura

Family Business People Long Understanding Patient Supported Hours Also Been Friends Very Personal Working Fortunate Who Many Career Appreciate

It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality. Shuji Nakamura

Reality Become Dream See Lighting Led Very Satisfying

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic. Shuji Nakamura

Work Big Dream Sony Like Companies Electronics

I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything. Shuji Nakamura

Me Care Fire OK About Quit Afraid Wanted Anything Them

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE). Simon van der Meer

Work Time Power Group Project Ring Small Joined Had Supplies Study Studying Come End Just Experimental Ice Team Cooling

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. Simon van der Meer

Teacher Family Mother Father Schoolteacher Came

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.' Stefan Hell

Saying Myself Day Morning You Yourself Every Day Judge Better Every Would Find Leave Go Choices Many

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few. Stefan Hell

Few Way Except Selected Calling Quiet Just Them Molecule Each

According to the belief, molecules closer together than 200 nanometers could not be told apart with focused light. This is because, in a packed molecular crowd, the molecules shout out their fluorescence simultaneously, causing their signal, their voices, to be confused. Stefan Hell

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious. Stefan Hell

Love Always Scientist Curious Being Enjoyed

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it. Stefan Hell

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. Stephen Hawking

Future Space Think Go Human Race Human Race

Exploration by real people inspires us. Stephen Hawking

People Inspires Real Real People Us Exploration

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. Stephen Hawking

Universe Quantum Very Product Early

Theology is unnecessary. Stephen Hawking

Unnecessary Theology

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk. Stephen Hawking

Family Abortion Other Member Kind High Would Would-Be Favour Indication Some Risk Had Genetically Motor Linked Disease Forms

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low. Stephen Hawking

Black Difficult Every Would Would-Be Temperature Black Hole Physicist Hot Almost Like Although Because Glow Verify Very Hole Prediction Low Should Body Theoretical Agree