Giaever Quotes

#1. Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that "in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis".

Mark Steyn

#2. There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

Ivar Giaever

#3. If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

George Monbiot

#4. It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that ...

Virginia Woolf

#5. I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

Ivar Giaever

#6. If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Ivar Giaever

#7. Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

#8. shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love. The

Erich Maria Remarque

#9. Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.

Ivar Giaever

#10. If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

Ivar Giaever

#11. If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Ivar Giaever

#12. There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

Ivar Giaever

#13. Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Roddy McDowall

#15. I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

Ivar Giaever

#16. While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Ivar Giaever

#17. In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

Mallory Ortberg

#18. To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.

Ivar Giaever

#19. He looks like an untouchable piece of artwork, so beautifully put together. So dangerously put together.

Jessica Sorensen

#20. 'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

Ivar Giaever

#21. You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Rahm Emanuel

#22. Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

Nancy Pelosi

#23. Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Ivar Giaever

#24. Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ivar Giaever

#25. The muscles fought so long
To control against the pull of
One magnet to another magnet

Sara Quin

#26. When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ivar Giaever

#27. I am a skeptic ... Global warming has become a new religion.

Ivar Giaever

#28. The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Maureen Dowd

#29. Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

Richard Attenborough

#30. Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Josh Billings

#31. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

Ivar Giaever