George Gamow

"With very few exceptions, philosophers do not know much science and do not understand it, which is quite natural because science lies beyond the boundaries of typical philosophical subjects such as et…"

"It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!"

"So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in."

"DNA: An "Amateur" Makes a Real Contribution"

"I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their co…"

"It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab…"

"The Big Bang and the genetic code" ~ Nature"

"If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional t…"