Category: physicist
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During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
Marie Curie
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In 1903, I finished my doctor’s thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.
Marie Curie
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It is extremely important to me to write for children.
Stephen Hawking
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I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
Stephen Hawking
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I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.
Stephen Hawking
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If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
Stephen Hawking
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
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Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
Richard P. Feynman
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Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‘If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.’
Richard P. Feynman
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Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
Richard P. Feynman