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Physicist Inspirational Quotes (10916)

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I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Why do we remember the past, but not the future?
Stephen Hawking
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Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.
Tsung-Dao Lee
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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Percy Williams Bridgman
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A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'
Niels Bohr
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Custom determines what is agreeable.
Blaise Pascal
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What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.
Steven Chu
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When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.
Richard Lindzen
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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
Annie Jump Cannon
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Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
Annie Jump Cannon
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
Thomas A. Edison
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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
Thomas A. Edison
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A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.
Ulrich Walter
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ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.
Ulrich Walter
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
Ulrich Walter
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Dijkstra
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You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster
Saul Perlmutter
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And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
Umberto Guidoni
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
Umberto Guidoni
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During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.
Umberto Guidoni
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
Umberto Guidoni
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
Umberto Guidoni
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And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
Umberto Guidoni
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