Category: physicist
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If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.
Richard P. Feynman
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I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.
Stephen Hawking
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There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.
Stephen Hawking
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My wife and I love each other very much.
Stephen Hawking
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
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A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?
Stephen Hawking
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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen Hawking
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo Galilei
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei