Occupation: Physicist Birth: May 11, 1918 Death: February 15, 1988
What did you ASK at school today?.
A great deal more is known than has been proved..
I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting any….
The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, ….
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to ….
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry..
All we know so far is what doesn't work..
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is ….
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself..
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought..
All mass is interaction..
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and….
Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same..
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world..
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real..
We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The….
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.….
As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep..
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right….
Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different th….
By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required f….