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Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.
If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.
In the future, the Internet might become a 'brain net' where we send memories, feelings and sensations.
Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.
The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.
If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
Understanding is a lot like sex; it’s got a practical purpose, but that’s not why people do it normally.
Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.
Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.