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Physics Quotes
Most Famous Physics Quotes of All Time!
One quote credits a towering influence on twentieth-century physics as even greater than Einstein's, while another recounts a research assistantship in electron microscopy that followed a professor's recommendation. Read more in Chemistry quotes.
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- Heritage
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The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
- Patience
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
- Place
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
- Father
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
- Picture
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
- Heart
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
- Cooling
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Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.
- He
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Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.
- Bump
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
- Life
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In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
- Laboratory
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On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention.
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In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva.
- Our
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Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein.
- Say
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Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
- Planned
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
- I Am
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I am fascinated by quantum physics.
A further quote fondly remembers a visiting professor's summer visits to a biophysics laboratory, and another highlights coincidence methods as essential tools within nuclear physics research. See more in Biology quotes and Mathematics quotes.