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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it does some good.
Edward Condon
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Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.
Freeman Dyson
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You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
John von Neumann
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I am not a madman or a nut.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
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Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects, and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which...cannot be trusted.
John Gofman
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
Freeman Dyson
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No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.
Ernest Lawrence
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No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.
Lise Meitner
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No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.
John Archibald Wheeler
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I never see what has been done I only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie
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This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.
Freeman Dyson
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Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
Freeman Dyson
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New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.
Freeman Dyson
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In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable.
Henrik Svensmark
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If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
John Archibald Wheeler
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Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.
Ernest Rutherford
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I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
Edward Teller
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This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.
Marie Curie
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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
Freeman Dyson
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The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
John Archibald Wheeler
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The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .
John Archibald Wheeler
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