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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter
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The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.
John Archibald Wheeler
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
Niels Bohr
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The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.
Ernest Moniz
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First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
Marie Curie
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Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.
Lise Meitner
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If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.
Freeman Dyson
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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
Freeman Dyson
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Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.
Freeman Dyson
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I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
Mark Oliphant
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Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.
Freeman Dyson
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Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.
Frank Oppenheimer
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I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.
Edward Teller
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You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
Ernest Rutherford
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No, no, you're not thinking you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr
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Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
Edward Teller
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So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.
George Gamow
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I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.
Andrei Sakharov
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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
C. F. Powell
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I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson
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Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at least the potential for organizing itself in interesting ways.
Freeman Dyson
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There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.
John von Neumann
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The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.
Werner Heisenberg
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In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.
Andrei Sakharov
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