Japanese Physicist Quotes

Hideki Yukawa

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

Makoto Kobayashi

Sumio Iijima

We are too powerless to make assumptions based only on reasoning. We must beg instruction from Nature herself.

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Research can be undertaken in any kind of environment, as long as you have the interest. I believe that true education means fostering the ability to be interested in something.

We don't know where breakthroughs will come from and there is no guarantee that they will come from a popular area which is currently drawing a lot of attention. I think the natural pattern is that something new, something which no one was paying attention to before appears when there is a bottleneck. It would be a serious mistake to nip things like this in the bud.

Makoto Kobayashi

Those who explore an unknown world are travelers without a map: the map is the result of the exploration. The position of their destination is not known to them, and the direct path that leads to it is not yet made.

We are too powerless to make assumptions based only on reasoning. We must beg instruction from Nature herself. T. Miyazima (ed.)

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga