Occupation: Physicist Birth: January 26, 1911 Death: March 20, 1993
I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era..
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with….
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which ….
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge….
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is….
The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the wor….
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics..
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do..
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an ….
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources….
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which ….
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world..