Physicist Quotes

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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