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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
Freeman Dyson
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Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.
Ernest Rutherford
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If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.
David Bohm
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If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.
Freeman Dyson
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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Edward Teller
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If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.
Leo Szilard
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Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
David Bohm
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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
Freeman Dyson
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We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
Ernest Rutherford
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We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.
Freeman Dyson
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
Freeman Dyson
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By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which repair invariably prevents health harm.
John Gofman
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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
Edward Teller
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I am proud of my work for my country.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
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Everything in my life was luck.
Freeman Dyson
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Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
Arthur Compton
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I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.
Freeman Dyson
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
Abraham Pais
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As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.
Freeman Dyson
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Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.
Freeman Dyson
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The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment . . . that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.
Ernest Rutherford
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Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
John Poindexter
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
Freeman Dyson
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