Victor Frederick Weisskopf Quotes

#1. War is sweet to those who never tried it.

Pindar

#2. Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#3. To understand hydrogen is to understand all of physics.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#4. There is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it

Oprah Winfrey

#5. Conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#6. I guess' will get you killed.

Jennifer Echols

#7. I would rather be dead than not read

Annie Proulx

#8. Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

William F. Buckley Jr.

#9. When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#10. My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#11. It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#12. In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#13. ...Who knew he'd rather be a waiter than your guardian. I guess being a guardian isn't paying too well these days. Or maybe he's finally come to terms with the fact that he sucks at it.... ~Mazriel from Sanctuary

Beth Gualda

#14. When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

Shaquille O'Neal

#15. I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. On the same day, two murders.

Jean Zimmerman

#17. In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#18. He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.

Suzanne Young

#19. Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf