Russian Physicist Quotes

Andrei Sakharov

Pyotr Kapitsa

Vitaly Ginzburg

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

Igor Tamm

Vladimir Fock

Lev Artsimovich

International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.

Andrei Sakharov

Every physicist (naturally, this equally applies to other specialities, but I re- strict myself to physicists for definitiveness) should simultaneously know, apart from theoretical physics, a wealth of facts from different branches of physics and be familiar with the newest notable accomplishments.

Vitaly Ginzburg

Creativity makes life valuable. Man is the sole creator; he stands out from the swarming masses of petty little folks. It doesn't matter what kind of creativity it is - whether scientific or socio-political - it's of equal value.

If they can in their proposals write the word Nano, the chances for funding increase.

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman – we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.

Lev Artsimovich

It would be interesting to use high temperatures - in the billions, which develop during atomic bomb explosions, for conducting synthetic reactions (for example, the formation of helium from hydrogen), which are the source of energy of stars and which could raise the energy liberated during the explosion of basic matter (uranium, bismuth, lead) even higher.

The universe is popping all over the place.

Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians. These parallel global warmings — observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth — can only be a straightline consequence of the effect of the one same factor: a long-time change in solar irradiance.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

Alexander Markovich Polyakov

Only by having a clear perspective of the future can we rightly direct our work in the present.

Though we may weigh it as we will, Exhausted and delirious, One-hundred-thirty-seven still Remains for us mysterious. But Eddington, he, sees it clear, Denouncing those who tend to jeer; It is the number of (says he) The world's dimensions. Can it?! be?! —