Occupation: Physicist Birth: May 11, 1918 Death: February 15, 1988
Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the ….
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules..
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how ….
The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit..
Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not sup….
Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics ….
It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is..
It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and….
Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of ….
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The ot….
The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect..
I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether….
To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word..
The test of all knowledge is experiment..
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... O….
When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion'….
The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how study….
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go..
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture….
There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon c….
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding..