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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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The probability of success is difficult to estimate but if we never search the chance of success is zero.
Philip Morrison
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Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
Freeman Dyson
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
Freeman Dyson
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller
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But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.
Val Logsdon Fitch
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A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
David Bohm
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I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.
John von Neumann
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
Freeman Dyson
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If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no' if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no' if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no' if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller
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Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.
Hideki Yukawa
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I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable that could be regarded as a pearl, and I can assure those who worked with me it was you who made the pearls and I was merely the grain of sand, the irritant to produce the pearls.
Nicholas Kurti
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
Niels Bohr
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It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
Freeman Dyson
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Marie Curie
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Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different
Werner Heisenberg
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The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.
Leo Szilard
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The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.
David Bohm
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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
Freeman Dyson
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I supply guns to every army but the Salvation Army.
Yuri Orlov
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
Ernest Rutherford
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A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition. Can it be true that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck?' 'Of course not,' replied Bohr, 'but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe it or not.'
Niels Bohr
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Scientist believe in things, not in person
Marie Curie
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