Paul 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. Rhoda, my mother, was what the neighbors euphemistically termed "a difficult woman." Her misery was like Texas oil: You could drill anywhere and find some.

Karla Jay

#4. If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good.
Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.

Hosea Ballou

#5. All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

Maxine

#6. Physics is simple, but subtle.

Paul Ehrenfest

#7. 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

#8. I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.

William Gouge

#10. No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.

John Shelton Reed

#11. Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. Everyone dreams but not everyone does.

Josiyah Martin

#14. Love can't be forced into existence,( ... )It won't come simply because you will it to happen

Judith McNaught

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.

Joseph Campbell

#18. A jug fill drop by drop.

Gautama Buddha

#19. 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

#20. Ideas are dangerous commodities.

E. C. R. Lorac

#21. People with dimple have a divine role in this universe: smile!

Toba Beta

#22. I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
I don't know, but it must be better than work.

Shel Silverstein