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Niels Bohr

Philosophy

1885–1962

"It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite."

"Sharing the food is to me more important than arguing about beliefs. Jesus, according to the gospels, thought so too."

"But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job."

"Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries."

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🇺🇸Charles Hard Townes

Science

1915–2015

"It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?"

🇺🇸Edward Mills Purcell

Science

1912–1997

"Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular."

"The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies."

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🇺🇸Norman Foster Ramsey

Science

1915–2011

"You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge."

"It is so difficult to find something interesting and new, but instead of helping me to develop fledgling ideas in their infancy, you guys immediately look for a way to attack them."

🇺🇸John Archibald Wheeler

Science

1911–2008

"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."

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🇺🇸Edwin Ernest Salpeter

Science

1924–2008

"I may be a minority of one in advocating that one should NOT separate science and politics—partly because I am old enough to remember the Weimar Republic before 1934..."

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🇺🇸Luis Walter Alvarez

Science

1911–1988

", Luis W. . Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist."

"Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist."

"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."

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🇺🇸John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

Mathematics

1899–1980

"… one can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unlocks each door."

"In science, it is not speed that is the most important. It is the dedication, the commitment, the interest and the will to know something and to understand it — these are the things that come first."

"We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding."

"Glenn Seaborg Trail, at Department of Energy official site"

"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!"

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

"The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy."

"In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war."

"Even in times of war, you can see current events in their historical perspective, provided that your passion for the truth prevails over your bias in favor of your own nation."

"Mark Oliphant" - Bright Sparcs Online Exhibition"

"What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning."

"I think it is a sad reflection on our civilisation that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus, we do not know what goes on inside our souffles."

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