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If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.
Erwin Schrödinger
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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.
Wolfgang Pauli
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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
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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.
Lise Meitner
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I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.
Anton Zeilinger
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In principio it is impossible to prove from experiments that something is non-existent.
Felix Ehrenhaft
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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.
Thomas Gold
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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.
Erich Jantsch
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A really good scientist is one who knows how to draw correct conclusions from incorrect assumptions.
Otto Robert Frisch
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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
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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.
Martin Deutsch
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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
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