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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
Philip Morrison
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It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
John Poindexter
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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.
Marie Curie
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I have the best husband one could dream of I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.
Marie Curie
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What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
Freeman Dyson
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And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
Freeman Dyson
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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
Freeman Dyson
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
Freeman Dyson
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Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.
David Bohm
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I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.
Klaus Fuchs
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I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
Werner Heisenberg
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From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such a way that individual members last a certain time. Perhaps a certain kind of species would be better able to survive if the individuals didn't last too long. Other kinds could last longer.
David Bohm
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[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.
Luis Walter Alvarez
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I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment and only so can we know peace.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Never say, I tried it once and it did not work.
Ernest Rutherford
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I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
Ernest Lawrence
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We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.
Marie Curie
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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
Freeman Dyson
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Do your work for six years but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
Leo Szilard
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More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.
Marie Curie
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Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre Curie
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For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
Andrei Sakharov
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[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
Werner Heisenberg
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