X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

Page 19 of 27
Filter & Style
Image
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
Cheikh Anta Diop
Image
The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.
John von Neumann
Image
Today's science is tomorrow's technology.
Edward Teller
Image
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
Image
Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.
David Bohm
Image
I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
Freeman Dyson
Image
Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows.
Freeman Dyson
Image
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
Image
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr
Image
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
Werner Heisenberg
Image
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
Klaus Fuchs
Image
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mashbut to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.
Niels Bohr
Image
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
Ernest Rutherford
Image
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
Niels Bohr
Image
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Image
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
Niels Bohr
Image
Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Image
Ignorance is never better than knowledge
Enrico Fermi
Image
Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.
Andrei Sakharov
Image
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.
Ernest Rutherford
Image
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
Ernest Lawrence
Image
We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.
Ernest Moniz
Image
I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.
Freeman Dyson
Image
Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Previous
Next