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Physicist Inspirational Quotes (10905)

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It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.
William Cecil Dampier
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All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.
Sean M. Carroll
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
Brian Greene
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
Isaac Newton
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While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
Lee De Forest
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It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.
William Crookes
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Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.
William Crookes
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I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations about the orderliness of the physical universe, and the apparently exceptional fine-tuning of the conditions of the universe for the development of life suggest that an intelligent Creator is responsible.
William Daniel Phillips
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Le nez de Cle opa tre: s'il e u t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
Blaise Pascal
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I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
Imre Lakatos
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Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.
Blaise Pascal
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin
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Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
Wernher von Braun
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Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.
Benjamin Franklin
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
Carl Sagan
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You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.
Alessandro Volta
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I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
Joseph Rotblat
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If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.
Francis William Aston
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Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
Anaxagoras
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Rene Descartes
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand.
Omar Khayyam
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