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It is probably no exaggeration to say that all of theoretical physics proceeds by analogy.

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A physics book, unlike a novel, not only has no happy ending, but has no real ending at all.

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Ignorance of science and technology is becoming the ultimate self-indulgent luxury.

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The first reason for teaching science to non scientists is that many of these nonscientists have a genuine desire to learn about science, and this, after all, is the best reason for teaching anything to anyone.

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The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer...

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I would insist that any proposal for a radically new theory in physics or in any other science, contain a clear explanation of why the precedent science worked. What new domain of experience is being explored by the new science, and how does it meld with the old?

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Jeremy Bernstein

Jeremy Bernstein

Born: December 31, 1929 (age 95)
Bio: Jeremy Bernstein is an American theoretical physicist and science essayist.
Known for:
  1. Hitler's uranium club (1996)
  2. Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (2004)
  3. A Palette of Particles (2013)
  4. Quantum profiles (1991)

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