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Physicist Inspirational Quotes (10904)

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Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.
Mark Buchanan
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin
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I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.
Valerie Thomas
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Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
Benjamin Franklin
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The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.
Edward Witten
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
Galileo Galilei
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Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.
John C. Baez
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There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.
Immanuel Kant
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As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.
David Hilbert
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I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.
Vannoccio Biringuccio
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.
Henry B. Eyring
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A heavenly society is a harmony of many.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
Vera Kistiakowsky
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I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.
Vera Rubin
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In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.
Vera Rubin
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
Vera Rubin
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It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.
Vera Rubin
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No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
Vera Rubin
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It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.
Grace Hopper
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Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
Heinz von Foerster
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
Blaise Pascal
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