"Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in term..."
- Percy Williams Bridgman
"We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution..."
- Arne Tiselius
"Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little."
- John Galsworthy
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."
- Albert Szent-Györgyi
"It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hi"
- Ernest Rutherford
"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter o..."
- Edward M. Purcell
"Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the "
- Harold Urey
"By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or tha..."
"Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man."
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
"Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions."
- Hideki Yukawa