Top 32 Leon Lederman Quotes
#1. The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ...
Leon M. Lederman
#2. Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
Leon M. Lederman
#3. Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Thomas Sydenham
#4. Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.
Leon M. Lederman
#5. Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.
Leon M. Lederman
#6. In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
William Shakespeare
#7. One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.
Leon M. Lederman
#8. Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.
Leon M. Lederman
#9. I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.
Leon M. Lederman
#10. The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.
Leon M. Lederman
#11. I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.
Leon M. Lederman
#12. The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that - the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.
George W. Bush
#13. Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.
Leon M. Lederman
#15. Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.
Leon M. Lederman
#17. During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.
Leon M. Lederman
#18. My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn't make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.
Leon M. Lederman
#19. Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.
Leon M. Lederman
#20. He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion' ...
Leon M. Lederman
#22. Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.
Leon M. Lederman
#23. By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.
Leon M. Lederman
#24. I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.
Leon M. Lederman
#25. We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.
Leon M. Lederman
#26. My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.
Erin Cummings
#27. The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
John Lydon
#28. I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.
Leon M. Lederman
#29. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we export 1.1 million tons of potatoes, while we also import 1.4 million tons.
Barbara Kingsolver
#31. At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God's law engraved in our hearts.
Pope Francis
#32. Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
Claude Monet
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