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“It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession.”

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Book:The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

Source: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

“... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.”

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Author:Robert Bunsen

“Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.”

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Author:Krista Tippett

“[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.”

“When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps.”

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Author:Margaret Geller

“So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?”

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Author:Richard Bach

“The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”

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Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?”

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Author:Frank J. Tipler

“The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!”

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Book:The Secret

Source: The Secret

“My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.”

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Author:John Astin

“Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”

“In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle discovered by J.J. Thomson in 1897. Dirac was puzzled by an unprecedented property of space-time, discovered by Lorentz in his studies of electromagnetic forces, whereby if space was real, time had to be imaginary, and vice versa. In other words, space and time had to be a ‘complex’ mixture of two quantities, one real and the other imaginary.”

“We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.”

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Book:Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983

Source: Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983

“Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.”

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Book:The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

Source: The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

“The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.”

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.”

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Author:Franz Karl Achard

“The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.”

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Author:Paul Davies

“The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.”

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Author:Rob Brezsny

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

Author:Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Source: Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

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