Occupation: Physicist Birth: May 11, 1918 Death: February 15, 1988
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter..
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….
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress..
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?" ….
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out..
It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and….
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….
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….
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….
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..
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….
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….
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….
It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is..
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules..
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the prec….
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile..
Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value..
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquir….
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can..