Occupation: Physicist Birth: May 11, 1918 Death: February 15, 1988
There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world..
Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there..
You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithi….
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not wor….
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists..
I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is..
What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth..
Science is uncertain..
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the….
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find….
If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar..
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. I….
Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. Th….
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it d….
The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday..
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?.
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy..
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature..
What Do You Care What Other People Think?.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something..
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong..