Carlo Rubbia Quotes

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The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.

Carlo Rubbia
When you dive inside matter it's as exciting as making an infinitely long interplanetary journey.

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Detectors... are really the way you express yourself. To say somehow what you have in your guts. In the case of painters, it's painting. In the case of sculptures, it's sculpture. In the case of experimental physicists, it's detectors. The detector is the image of the guy who designed it.

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I have to talk to you as an experimentalist, not as a theorist. I don't have a telephone line to God.

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The best quality of a true scientist is not sheer intelligence of Albert Einstein's approach, it is just persistence and having no fear of doing work which turns out to be useless.

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To be a scientist is not a job nine to five. When you do science you have to do science 24 hours a day.

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Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting, or music or something.

Carlo Rubbia
Science discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and. I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting

Carlo Rubbia
If it turns out that the magnet does not work, or the detector does not track, we cannot blame anybody but ourselves. You have to understand every part in your detector. You have to know what makes it run, how it works.

Carlo Rubbia