Cosmologists are often wrong but never in doubt. — Lev Landau (Russian physicist)
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. — Albert Einstein
Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Nobel Prize 1937)
A theoretical physicist is a physicist without the ability to perform real experiments. A mathematical physicist is a mathematician without the ability to perform real mathematics. — David Mermin
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. — Niels Henrik David Bohr
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency, without necessarily achieving it, than for any other single reason -- including blind stupidity. — WA Wulf
There’s a reason physicists are so successful with what they do, and that is they study the hydrogen atom and the helium ion and then they stop. — Richard Feynman
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. For this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. — Einstein, in regard to modern methods of education.
There is a remarkably close parallel between the problems of the physicist and those of the cryptographer. The system on which a message is enciphered corresponds to the laws of the universe, the intercepted messages to the evidence available, the keys for a day or a message to important constants that have to be determinted. The correspondence is very close, but the subject of cryptograpy is very easily dealt with by discrete machinery, physics no so easily. — Alan Turing
Science is about why; engineering is about why not. — Dean Kamen
Scintillate, scintillate
Globule vivific
Fain would I fathom
Thy nature specific
Loftily perched
In the ether capacious
Strongly resembling
A gem carbonaceous. — polysyllabic “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
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