Quotes by Physicists

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible. Stephen Hawking
Space Fly Would Feasible Never Years Wanted Really Many Imagined
I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations. Stephen Hawking
Myself Me Care Feeling Down Difficult Intuitive Write Mainly Partly Because Equations dont Care Them Much
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement. Victor Francis Hess
Measurement Strong Energy Field Further Penetrating Carried Out Magnetic Particles Most Enables Still Method Improvement May Capable Extension Application
Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out. Victor Francis Hess
Recording Sets Carried Out Wilson Simultaneous Counting Been Tubes Chambers
In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent. Victor Francis Hess
Progress Will Made Field Our Resources Further Cosmic Only Rays Simultaneously Particularly Make Limited Least Been Effort Order Which Apparatus Necessary Extent Apply
On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego. Walter Kohn
Strong Projects Several Mention Studies Over Involved California Identity Another Been Years Diego Establishment Want San San Diego Level Program University Jewish University Of California
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. Walter Kohn
War World Father Lost Fighting Side Brother Had Committed Pacifist Who World War World War I
My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day. Walter Kohn
Day Commitment World Humane Peaceful Peaceful World
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective. Walter Kohn
World Important Objective Joined Attainment Institute Because Am Just Board Convinced Population Early
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. Walter Kohn
War Family Class World Few Born Point Point Of View Disastrous Years End Middle Middle Class After Which Vienna View World War World War I Jewish
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes. Walter Kohn
School Year Military Summers One Or Two Small Developed Part-Time Well Instruments Canadian Which Planes Worked Electrical Company Two
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. Walter Kohn
Physics Structure Had Particular Revert Planned Originally Nuclear Nuclear Physics
To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first. Walther Bothe
Example First State Trivial For Example Because Always Demonstrate May Happen Forms Means Product
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist. Walther Bothe
Exaggeration Physics Will Field Tools Say Physicist Without Method Modern Essential Large Many Therefore Found Nuclear Nuclear Physics Applications Coincidence
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today. Walther Bothe
Today Events First Easily System Parallel More Advantage Between Another Than Working Used Therefore Describe Extended Two Coincidences
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms. Walther Bothe
Time Later More Only Date Became Tests Laboratory Substances Rooms Radioactive Four Extensive Two
The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed. Walther Bothe
Nature Complicated Assumed Extraordinarily Out Has-Been Cosmic More Had Primary Particle Although Material Been Than Confirmed Processes Turned Radiation
The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine. Werner Heisenberg
War Construction Decision Moral About Atomic Atomic Bomb Only Physicists Could Had Clear Knew Make Least Were German Germany Whether Uranium Succeed Them Spared Worked Much Should Engine Manufacture Reason Bomb Bombs
The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone. Werner Heisenberg
Alone Knowledge Measurement Values Degree Example Possible Restrict Uncertainty Various Simultaneous Velocity For Example Principle Quantities Quantum Does Deals Which Theory Present Position
Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein. Werner Heisenberg
Physics Stronger Else Our Physicists Than Influence Anyone Anyone Else Einstein Century Even Albert Albert Einstein
I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge. Werner Heisenberg
Strange Challenge Field Waves Considered Would Properties Mention Like Perhaps Also Gravitational
In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines. Werner Heisenberg
War Problem Collective Drive Energy Scale Would Constitute Atomic Atomic Energy Attempt Part Germany Effort America American Decided War Effort Producing Production Engines Large Large Part Bombs Applied
I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb. Werner Heisenberg
Heart Thought Our Say Possibility Would Glad Absolutely Never Bottom Make Making Uranium Really Convinced Engine Bomb
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science. Werner Heisenberg
Science Physics Feeling Would Would-Be Only Development Reaction Motion Understood Caused Modern Moving Cut Ground Foundations Here Started Recent Violent
One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and a hindrance. Hence, it usually takes a long time before the new concepts are generally accepted. Werner Heisenberg
Time Science Progress Long Long Time Before Changed State Say Both Generally Takes New Concepts Hindrance Accepted Tradition Condition May Where Hence Fundamental
Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima. Werner Heisenberg
Our States Physicists Generally Missed Like Until Principle Understand Least Hiroshima Privileged Reports Just After Cannot Information Available Persons Held Your Show Reasoning Washington United Bomb Why United States Basic
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