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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
David Bohm
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That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.
Freeman Dyson
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Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.
Freeman Dyson
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
Niels Bohr
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Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill.
Yuri Orlov
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Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?
David Bohm
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I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information of God, in case God does not know my version of the facts.
Leo Szilard
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But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.
Ernest Lawrence
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The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct actuality of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
Werner Heisenberg
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Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.
Marie Curie
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After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
Werner Heisenberg
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
Niels Bohr
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless.
Freeman Dyson
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I love physics with all my heart ... It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to whom one is grateful for many things.
Lise Meitner
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How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.
C. F. Powell
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The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
Freeman Dyson
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
Niels Bohr
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The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
Eugene Wigner
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In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.
John Archibald Wheeler
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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
Marie Curie
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I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
Freeman Dyson
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We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
Freeman Dyson
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