Quotes by Physicists - Page 3

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
Albert Einstein
Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein
The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Blaise Pascal
God is clever but not dishonest.
Albert Einstein
The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein
[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can't count above fourteen.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. Lichtenberg
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
Blaise Pascal
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it is opinion that uses the force.
Pascal
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Faith is a gift of God.
Blaise Pascal
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
Blaise Pascal
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.
Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.
Blaise Pascal
Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.
Blaise Pascal
Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal
I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
Practice being excited.
Bill Foster
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Sir Edward Appleton
Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
Pascal
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.
G. C. Lichtenberg
We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Pascal
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others whom it affects and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
G. C. Lichtenberg
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
Blaise Pascal
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
G. C. Lichtenberg
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
No this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein
The birds can fly An' why can't I?
John Trowbridge
No animal admires another animal.
Blaise Pascal
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.
Archimedes
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg
All those who prefer peace to power, and happiness to glory should thank the colonized people for their civilizing mission. By liberating themselves, they made Europeans more modest, less racist, and more human. Let us hope that the process continues and that the Americans are obliged to follow the same course. When one’s own cause is unjust, defeat can be liberating.
Jean Bricmont
Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of its inhabitants who ended up parked in camps. Then came the methodical bombing and recapture of the city block by block. When soldiers occupied the hospital, The New York Times managed to justify this act on grounds that the hospital served as an enemy propaganda center by exaggerating the number of casualties. And by the way, just how many casualties were there? Nobody knows, there is no body count for Iraqis. When estimates are published, even by reputable scientific reviews, they are denounced as exaggerated. Finally, the inhabitants were allowed to return to their devastated city, by way of military checkpoints, and start to sift through the rubble, under the watchful eye of soldiers and biometric controls.
Jean Bricmont
Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.
Mark Buchanan
If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.
Albert Einstein
(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did
Richard Feynman
Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
Paolo Giordano
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho
Blaise Pascal
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein