Shocking Sayings
1,935 sayings found from the Modern era
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these question…
Knowing how contented, free and joyful is life in the realms of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter their portals.
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as…
Without order, our science is nothing but a miserable collection of facts.
The periodic table is a work of art, a testament to the elegance and order of the natural world.
I don't believe a word of the whole thing they must have spent the whole of their £500. million in separating isotopes. and then it's possible.
One can't say that one could equally well say that's the quickest way of ending the war.
We wouldn't have had the moral courage to recommend to the government in the spring of 1942 that they should employ 120,000 men just for building the thing up.
You spoke in a manner that could only give me the firm impression that under your leadership everything was being done in Germany to develop atomic weapons.
I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making a uranium engine. but I never thought that we would make a bomb. and at the bottom of my heart. I was really glad that it was to be an engine.
Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consists only of processes involving ex…
Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking.
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
Our proposition that the physicists on both sides should not advance the production of atomic bombs, was thus indirectly, if one wants to exaggerate the point, a proposition in favor of Hitler.
My Führer! I am most deeply shaken by the message that my son Erwin has been sentenced to death by the People's Court. The acknowledgement for my achievements in service of our fatherland, which you, my Führer, have expressed towards me in repeated a…
The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that hap…
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.