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Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.
Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.
Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.
We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.
I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.
Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.
In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.
A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.
The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
You must learn to think one octave higher. Only then will you learn how implosion energy works.
Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.
By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.
One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.
We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.
You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!
In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.
I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!
Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.
More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.
And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being.
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.
I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.
Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.
The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.
Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.
Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.
My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.
He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
Actually, the mysteries of water are similar to those of the blood in the human body. In Nature, normal functions are fulfilled by water just as blood provides many important functions for mankind.
The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an inscrutable complexity of form, extent, and relationships with each other.