Occupation: Physicist Birth: January 15, 1908 Death: September 9, 2003
Physics without mathematics is meaningless..
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to bel….
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function..
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible..
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler..
I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ….
There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously tha….
When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool..
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction..
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow..
The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses..
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness..
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding..
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool..
On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, J….
I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in..
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought..
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are ….
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things s….
When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at th….
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil..