Maurice Goldhaber Quotes

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Then I went to the Cavendish and there I took Rutherford's course in nuclear physics. He was a very dramatic lecturer and full of anecdotes. He made it come alive. So this was very impressive—also very phenomenological, everything he did; very simple derivations. I think that's very important for the first learning and this is perhaps something students now miss. They get the theory of nuclear physics thrown at them; sometimes before they ever know there is a phenomenon they have the complete theory of it. The phenomena are not sufficiently emphasized, I think, in teaching today.

Maurice Goldhaber

Antaeus was the strongest person alive, invincible as long as he was in contact with his mother, the earth. Once he lost contact with the earth, he grew weak and was vanquished. Theories in physics are like that. They have to touch the ground for their strength.

Maurice Goldhaber

In the absence of a firm theoretical basis for the law [conservation of baryon number], we can only conclude that it is known to be true with great accuracy.

Maurice Goldhaber