Quotes On Experimental Physics

#1. All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them not products of the imagination but representatives of real things.
Max Born (1953)

Victor J. Stenger

#2. A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

Fritjof Capra

#3. In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva.

Werner Arber

#4. One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of sheer terror.

William Kenneth Hartmann

#5. There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#6. Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Abdus Salam

#7. If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Spike Lee

#8. Identical twins. I'm glad they're identical 'cause you save money on photographs. That's what I like. Yeah. Here's my little boy. I got another one just like it.

Ray Romano

#9. Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

John L. Lewis

#10. When you've crawled through the darkness, the light is so much more glorious.

Rita Stradling

#11. I have no reason to believe that the human intellect is able to weave a system of physics out of its own resources without experimental labor. Whenever the attempt had been made it has resulted in an unnatural and self-contradictory mass of rubbish.

Nancy Forbes

#12. A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

Paul Dirac

#13. And, with the dark, the Forest came up boldly and pressed against the very walls and windows, peering in upon them, joining hands above the slates and chimneys.

Algernon Blackwood

#14. My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

Martin L. Perl

#15. You'll get into dreadful trouble and it won't be my fault. You are bad people.

Terry Pratchett

#16. You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

Julian Assange

#17. Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

David Sedaris

#18. The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances of this generation, the human mind has been baffled in its attempts to construct a universal science of physics.

Joseph Lovering

#19. In the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

Joseph Brodsky

#20. Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

#21. I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

James Cronin

#22. Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.

Judith Orloff

#23. It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

Laurence Harvey

#24. Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#25. Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

George Alexiou

#26. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.

Jake Vander Ark

#27. I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the number of people who have to collaborate because of the gigantic size of the instruments used, but also because of the enormous task that is data analysis.

Peter Higgs

#28. I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn't the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn't that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don't mean in that sense - but I've always been a nurturer.

Kim Fields

#29. Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

Peter Debye

#30. If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Pierre Duhem

#31. In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

Albert Einstein

#32. The dubious niche Case had carved for himself in the criminal ecology of Night City had been cut out with lies, scooped out a night at a time with betrayal.

William Gibson