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Nuclear Physicist Inspirational Quotes (642)

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When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
Freeman Dyson
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I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
Werner Heisenberg
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All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.
Glenn T. Seaborg
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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
Ernest Lawrence
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In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
John Gofman
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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
Freeman Dyson
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In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
John Archibald Wheeler
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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
George Gamow
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The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.
Freeman Dyson
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[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
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The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.
Robert Jastrow
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
Chien-Shiung Wu
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If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.
Freeman Dyson
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Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.
David Bohm
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I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
Edward Mills Purcell
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There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.
Robert Jastrow
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My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Edward Teller
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Niels Bohr
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I was in the underground until I left Germany.
Klaus Fuchs
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The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
Freeman Dyson
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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
Edward Teller
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