Ivar 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. You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#3. 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

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

Ivar Giaever

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

Ivar Giaever

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

Ivar Giaever

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. For NASA, space is still a high priority." (Quayle, Dan; 1990).

Dan Quayle

#10. Your guardian angel loves you and you are precious to them - you are the most important person in the world to them and, they have to do everything they can for you.

Lorna Byrne

#11. When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other ... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Ivar Giaever

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

Ivar Giaever

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Ivar Giaever

#19. On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

Simone Weil

#20. I'm only human, Odair!

Suzanne Collins

#21. From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

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

Ivar Giaever

#23. 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

#24. I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

Natsuki Takaya

#25. Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground.

Andrea Gibson

#26. So was the movie excruciating to watch because nothing was right, or was it excruciating to watch because, impossibly, some things were? Every

Ann Patchett

#27. 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

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

Ivar Giaever

#29. A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

Raj Kapoor

#30. Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Ivar Giaever