Austrian Physicist Quotes

Erwin Schrödinger

Ludwig Boltzmann

Lise Meitner

Wolfgang Pauli

Victor Francis Hess

Thomas Gold

Anton Zeilinger

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

Erwin Schrödinger

Dear Radioactive Ladies and Gentlemen, As the bearer of these lines, for whom I pray the favor of a hearing will explain in more detail, I have... hit upon a desperate remedy for rescuing the "alternation law".. This is the possibility that there might exist in the nuclei electrically neutral particles, which I call neutrons.

A mathematician will recognize Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi, of Helmholz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognize, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert.

Ludwig Boltzmann

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

Anton Zeilinger

In principio it is impossible to prove from experiments that something is non-existent.

Felix Ehrenhaft

If many years go by in a field in which no significant new facts come to light, the field sharpens up the opinions and gives the appearance that the problem is solved.

To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.

A really good scientist is one who knows how to draw correct conclusions from incorrect assumptions.

Otto Robert Frisch

Modern scientific man has largely lost his sense of awe in the Universe. He is confident that given sufficient intelligence, perseverance, time, and money, he can understand all there is beyond the stars.

Wolfgang Rindler

It is of course the ambition of every experimenter... to make a discovery, to sail safely between the Scylla of intellectual prejudice which makes us reject evidence not really integrated without preconceived notions, and the Charybdis of irrelevance which has swallowed many working days spent in pursuit of instrumental artifice.

The results of my observations are best explained by the assumption that a radiation of very great penetrating power enters our atmosphere from above...

Victor Francis Hess