Physics is my line. I know I shall do great things here. Homi J. Bhabha
Physics is my line. I know I shall do great things here.
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
A very special pleasure brings this day to my dear friend van der Waals. As I was fortunate to tell him that the helium was liquefied according to his doctrine, I know that this day filled him with joy. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
A very special pleasure brings this day to my dear friend van der Waals. As I was fortunate to tell him that the helium was liquefied according to his doctrine, I know that this day filled him with joy.
Well, you know I’m not on tenure anymore. Harold Urey
Well, you know I’m not on tenure anymore.
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb]. Harold Urey
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb].
Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon. Hans Bethe
Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon.
Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors. Guglielmo Marconi
Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it. George Gaylord Simpson
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it. George Gaylord Simpson
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
Knowing what we now know about living systems—how they replicate and how they mutate—we are beginning to know how to control their evolutionary futures. George Beadle
Knowing what we now know about living systems—how they replicate and how they mutate—we are beginning to know how to control their evolutionary futures.
We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. Georg Ohm
We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.