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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
Freeman Dyson
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
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You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
Niels Bohr
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Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.
Freeman Dyson
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Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.
Freeman Dyson
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Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say yes to anything crazy.
Freeman Dyson
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
Abraham Pais
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These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
James Van Allen
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
John von Neumann
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
Freeman Dyson
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Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.
David Bohm
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
Niels Bohr
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The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents
Lise Meitner
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Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.
John von Neumann
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The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.
Freeman Dyson
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I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
John Poindexter
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The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.
John von Neumann
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
Niels Bohr
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Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.
John Archibald Wheeler
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It never does much good to find out why you can't put your effort into what you can do.
Ernest Lawrence
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When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.
Freeman Dyson
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
Freeman Dyson
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I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Otto Hahn
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