Solid State Physics

🇬🇧Freeman Dyson

Science

1923–2020

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

🇬🇧Nevill Francis Mott

Science

1905–1996

"Any scientist, myself or another, can become so enamoured of his brain child that he resents criticism."

🇺🇸Léon Brillouin

Science

1889–1969

"Both the uncertainty principle and the negentropy principle of information make Laplace's scheme completely unrealistic. The problem is an artificial one; it belongs to imaginative poetry, not to experimental science."

🇺🇸Herbert Kroemer

Music

1928–2024

"Ultimately, progress in applications is not deterministic, but opportunistic, exploiting for new applications whatever new science and technology happen to be coming along."

"We do not aim at « mathematical rigour » of exposition, which in theoretical physics often amounts to self-deception."