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366 Physicist Quotes

I was born in New York in 1904.
Born I Was Born New New York
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Am Become Death Destroyer
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
Escape He How Knowing
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Because Children Could Long
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
Action Always Both Edge
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Best Fears Optimist Pessimist
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Any Correct Errors Man
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Cannot Crude Extinguish Humor
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Access Centuries Century Claim
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
Been Continue Days Heroic
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Art Artist Baltimore Before
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Because Deep Find Found
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

Another Bringing Developed Example
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Bitter Childhood Cruel Did
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

Affect Began Community Could
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Changed Changes Conditions Governments
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

About Continuing Fury Germany
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
Accepted Communist Dogma Never
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My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Bitter Child Cruel Did
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I need physics more than friends.
Friends More Need Physics
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Become Build Happy Machine
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
Must People Perish Unite
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

Any Ask Assertion Barriers
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
Beautiful Everything Science Very
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Cannot say Get better Change Must
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. s

Everyone Genius Year Bright ideas
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Man loves Small Burning candle
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Never undertake Courage Ask Blessing
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Person reveals Character Joke Resents
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

God Created man Image Bible
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

One must Judge men Opinions
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Men still have to be governed by deception.

Men Governed Deception
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

In love Advantage Encounter Rivals
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

No words Wisdom Understands
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Fly Swatted Secure Lights
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Falls Character Man Badly
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Many people Prevent Thinking
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Greater impediment Progress Sciences
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Opposite Something Imitation
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Nothing can Contribute Peace Soul
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nothing makes Old Thought Growing older
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue Premeditation Worth much
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Sure conviction Reason Good minds
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Book Mirror Look Apostle
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We accumulate Opinion Age
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Convinced Love Ourselves Hate
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Obliged Regard Minds Clever
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Inferred Man Mistress Weaknesses
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