Atomic Physics

Niels Bohr

Philosophy

1885–1962

"Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them."

🇫🇷Catherine Bréchignac

Science

b. 1946

"In the labs, the young make things move, and the older ones follow like parents evolving with their children."

🇺🇸Steven Chu

Science

b. 1948

"I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal."

🇺🇸Isidor Isaac Rabi

Philosophy

1898–1988

"I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity."

🇺🇸William Happer

Science

b. 1939

"I am trying to explain to my fellow Americans the serious damage that will be done to us, and indeed to the whole world, by cockamamie policies to ‘save the planet’ from CO2."