Nuclear Physics

Aage Niels Bohr

Science

1922–2009

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

🇺🇸Victor Weisskopf

Science

1908–2002

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

🇺🇸Otto Stern

Science

1925–1945

"Shall we do it?" "Well, then let's go, we shall do it!" Otto Stern asking, Walther Gerlach answering."

🇫🇷Catherine Bréchignac

Science

b. 1946

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

🇺🇸Norman Foster Ramsey

Science

1915–2011

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

🇨🇭Fritz Houtermans

Science

1903–1966

"On a double-log plot, my grandmother fits on a straight line."

🇬🇧Jim Al-Khalili

Science

b. 1962

"All scientists must communicate their work, for what is the point of learning new things about how the world works if you don't tell anyone about them?"

🇺🇸Sidney Coleman

Science

1937–2007

"Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you will know."

"An intelligent person should never resolve a dispute with brute force."

Léon Rosenfeld

Science

1904–1974

"Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence."

🇷🇺Lev Artsimovich

Science

1909–1973

"Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State."

🇺🇸Robert Oppenheimer

Science

1904–1967

"We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life."

🇺🇸Edward Mills Purcell

Science

1912–1997

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