Ehrenfest Quotes

#1. Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

David Goodstein

#2. You will get your difficulties with the point electron.

Paul Ehrenfest

#3. Yes," he whispered, reaching out to hold my shoulders. "Just say yes. Say you'll be with me.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#4. It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.

Carl Edwards

#5. Here. Tea." Reagan hands me a steaming mug. One sip tells me it's not just tea.
"You spiked the drink of an injured person," I state flatly, the alcohol burning in my throat.
"Who does that?"
"It's better than what a lame horse gets,

K.A. Tucker

#6. Physics is simple, but subtle.

Paul Ehrenfest

#7. When you stop chasing all the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

K. Bromberg

#8. Then there might be dead people.

Jeanne DuPrau

#9. No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

Paul Ehrenfest

#10. Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that.

Geoff Downes

#11. A thesis has to be presentable ... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all.

Paul Ehrenfest

#12. Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity] - it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

Paul Ehrenfest

#13. Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.

Paul Ehrenfest

#14. I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

Alex Honnold

#15. It seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.

George Eliot

#16. If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#17. I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.

Brendan I. Koerner

#18. It's very American, making a lot of money.

Claire McCaskill