Particle Physics

🇺🇸Richard Feynman

Science

1918–1988

"Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!"

🇬🇧Brian Cox

Science

1968–2008

"We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself."

🇺🇸Sheldon Lee Glashow

Science

b. 1932

"The color gauge theory postulates the existence of eight massless particles, sometimes called gluons, that are the carriers of the strong force just as the photon is the carrier of the electromagnetic force."

🇺🇸Lisa Randall

Science

b. 1962

"Science is not religion. We're not going to be able to answer the "why" questions. But when you put together all of what we know about the universe, it fits together amazingly well."

🇺🇸Alan Guth

Science

b. 1947

"It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch."

🇦🇹Wolfgang Pauli

Science

1900–1958

"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."

🇺🇸Victor J. Stenger

Philosophy

atheism

1935–2014

"The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics."

🇺🇸Carl David Anderson

Science

1905–1991

"The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students."

🇺🇸Sidney Drell

Science

1926–2016

"Science knows no boundaries, and efforts to create barriers – whether to keep new ideas within or to prevent new ones from entering from the outside – have universally proved harmful to progress."

🇮🇹Nicola Cabibbo

Science

1935–2010

"Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is."

🇺🇸Chris Quigg

Science

b. 1944

"Each second, some 1014 neutrinos made in the Sun and about a thousand neutrinos made by cosmic rays in Earth's atmosphere pass through your body."

🇺🇸Val Logsdon Fitch

Education

1923–2015

"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."

🇬🇧Brian Cox (physicist)

Science

1968–2008

"We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life."