Quotes by Physicist of the Authors - Page 30

Grid View List View
Quote of the DayPicture QuotesTop 100 Inspirational QuotesTop 100 Love QuotesTop 100 Happiness Quotes
Bob MarleyMaya AngelouWinston ChurchillChanakyaGroucho MarxRalph Waldo EmersonStephen HawkingSun TzuNiccolo MachiavelliMarcus Tullius Cicero
HeartbreakHappy BirthdayXanaxDepressionDreamRespectWomenArt18th BirthdayHope

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

From a theoretical point of view, it is very hard to imagine how gravity could avoid being quantized.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need.

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.

I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

Share This Page