Occupation: Physicist Birth: May 11, 1918 Death: February 15, 1988
If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else,….
The exception tests the rule..
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everythi….
Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method..
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculou….
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of yea….
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!.
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions..
It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for t….
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" ….
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives..
In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather ….
Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is mad….
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn..
I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it ….
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multi….
This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the deta….
Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves.
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other w….
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ….