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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.
John Archibald Wheeler
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The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.
Marie Curie
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I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.
Freeman Dyson
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There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
George Gamow
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Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
Werner Heisenberg
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If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
Arthur Compton
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The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.
James Rainwater
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Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
Ernest Rutherford
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Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.
David Bohm
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
Niels Bohr
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A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
Leo Szilard
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The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.
Robert Hofstadter
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[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.
Abraham Pais
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A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.
Ernest Rutherford
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That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.
Freeman Dyson
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Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.
Andrei Sakharov
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All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.
Enrico Fermi
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The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
Paul Scherrer
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In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means which could be used to investigate the problem.
Leo Szilard
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The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.
Werner Heisenberg
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The optimist regards the future as uncertain.
Eugene Wigner
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
Freeman Dyson
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What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most remarkable of all is the fact that in science, as in the Bible, the world begins with an act of creation.
Robert Jastrow
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