If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)
Assumptions are made, and most assumptions are wrong. (Albert Einstein)
No matter what you look at, if you look at it closely enough, you are involved in the entire universe. (Michael Faraday)
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. (Michael Faraday)
One day sir, you may tax it. (when asked the practical value of electricity by the minister of finance) (Michael Faraday)
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
What can be shown, cannot be said. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. (Niels Bohr)
A Physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself. (Niels Bohr)
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. (Niels Bohr)
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. (Niels Bohr)
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr)
I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax. (Richard Feynman)
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. (Richard Feynman)
To understand hydrogen is to understand all physics. (Victor Frederick Weisskopf)
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. (Galileo Galilei)
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. (Georg C. Lichtenberg)
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. (Agatha Christie)
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate. (Agatha Christie)
Assumptions are Dangerous Things. (Agatha Christie)
We Do Not See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are. (Anais Nin)
Assumptions are made, and most assumptions are wrong. (Albert Einstein)
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. (Enrico Fermi)
When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy. (Thomas Young)
The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday. (Erwin Schrodinger)
The reality we can put into words is never reality itself. (Werner Heisenberg)
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain." (Werner Heisenberg)
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. (Werner Heisenberg)
Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. (Werner Heisenberg)
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. (Werner Heisenberg)
The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level. (Wolfgang Pauli)
That's not right. That's not even wrong. (Wolfgang Pauli)
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected. (Wolfgang Pauli)
Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child. (Steven Weinberg)
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. (Steven Weinberg)
All models are wrong, but some are useful. (George E. P. Box)
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. (Max Planck)
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. (Max Planck)
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. (Max Planck)
Good artists copy; great artists steal. (Pablo Pacasso, Steve Jobs)
Think different. (Apple ad)
Don't do things better; do things differently. (Steve Jobs)
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. (Mark Twain)
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning. (Plato)
It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness. (Eugene Wigner)
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. (Henry David Thoreau)
In any field find the strangest thing and then explore it. (John Wheeler)
No theory of physics that deals only with physics will ever explain physics. I believe that as we go on trying to understand the universe, we are at the same time trying to understand man. (John Wheeler)
Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve. (John Wheeler)
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. (Aristotle)
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. (Steve Jobs)
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford)
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. (Aristotle)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. (Mark Twain)
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)
OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me? (Eugene Wigner)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny.' (Isaac Asimov.)
Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it. (Marie Curie)
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. (Tony Robbins)
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. (W. Clement Stone)
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. (Philip Sidney)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. (Immanuel Kant)
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. (Immanuel Kant)
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. (Nikola Tesla)
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Socrates)
It is more important to have beauty in one’s equation than to have them fit experiment. (Paul Dirac)
The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been dealt with by many authors, and I do not want to discuss it here. I want to deal with more fundamental things. (Paul Dirac)
In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. (James Clerk Maxwell)
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. (Thomas S. Kuhn)
To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself. (Thomas S. Kuhn)
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (William Arthur Ward)
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. (Lawrence J. Henderson)
What’s past is prologue. (William Shakespeare)
Everything new is well-forgotten old. (Russian proverb)
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)