Occupation: Physicist Birth: May 11, 1918 Death: February 15, 1988
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want….
The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy pro….
If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple..
To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only..
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize..
So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you ….
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wro….
What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things lik….
No one really understands quantum mechanics..
But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea..
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation..
As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!.
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it..
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot….
Work hard to find something that fascinates you..
The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried….
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts..
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates ra….
A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning..
It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand..
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the ar….