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Our age is proud of the progress it has made in man's intellectual development.
Albert Einstein
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Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.
Bernard Katz
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All our suffering comes from a deficiency to stand up for our beliefs.
Heinz Barwich
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You need only a sheet of paper and so mathematics starts.
Guido Beck
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Scientific theories are not overthrown; they are expanded, refined, and generalized.
Hans Bethe
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Doing physics is much more enjoyable than just learning it. Maybe 'doing it' is the right way of learning, at least as far as I am concerned.
Gerd Binnig
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It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest."
Max Born
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In closing, I should like to cite a line from William Blake. To see a world in a grain of sand - - - and allude to a possible parallel to see worlds in an electron.
Hans Georg Dehmelt
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Human beings are organisms capable of manipulating internal representations of the world by means of concrete operations and can transcend the bounds of their biologically given perceptions. They can liberate themselves and construct a view of reality that conflicts with intuition, yet gives a true, more encompassing view.
Max Delbrück
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To get information for myself and for others direct from nature gives me so much more satisfaction than to be always learning it from others and for myself alone.
Heinrich Hertz
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On a double-log plot, my grandmother fits on a straight line.
Fritz Houtermans
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A physicist must be able to saw with a file and to file with a saw.
August Kundt
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Error is transient; truth alone is eternal. Error is only the shadow cast by truth, when its rays are arrested on their path by human ignorance and intellectual opacity.
Justus von Liebig
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Concepts like these can seem remote, until you explain with analogies taken from everyday life. But unfortunately some ideas do not lend themselves to familiar analogies.
Leonard Mandel
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The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.
Gregor Mendel
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There are many examples in physics showing that higher precision revealed new phenomena, inspired new ideas, or confirmed or dethroned well-established theories.
Wolfgang Paul
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In Physics... as in every other science, common sense alone is not supreme; there must also be a place for Reason.
Max Planck
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The physicist in preparing for his work need three things, mathematics, mathematics, and mathematics.
Wilhelm Röntgen
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In electron microscopy, the difficulties took considerably more time to surmount, and therefore the doubters held the field for a longer period. I can, however, also confirm from my own experience the observation of my colleagues that the doubt of the others has the advantage of leaving the field uncrowded. Mostly, this is understood only much later, in the beginning one is very disappointed.
Ernst Ruska
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A scientific man, in so far as he influences the progress of science cannot be far ahead of his time, and though his writings may be read and admired centuries after his death, he will have written in vain if he has not been appreciated by his contemporaries or by those who immediately followed.
Arthur Schuster
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The twofold nature of light as a light-wave and as a light-quantum is thus extended to electrons and, further, to atoms: their wave-nature is asserting itself more and more, theoretically and experimentally, as concurrent with their corpuscular nature.
Arnold Sommerfeld
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A simple calculation shows that from the classical theory follows that we should find a broadening of the beam with the maximum intensity on the place of the beam without field. However, from the quantum theory follows that we should find there no intensity at all, and deflected molecules on both sides. The beam should split up in two beams corresponding to the two orientations of the magnet. The experiment decided in favor of the quantum theory.
Otto Stern
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Probably in most education systems in a sense we are stuck with the disciplines as we created them last, last century and before that.
Horst Ludwig Störmer
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Approximavit sidera He brought the stars closer
Joseph von Fraunhofer
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