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“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.”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Source : "Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics" by David Kaiser, University of Chicago Press, (p. 336), 2005.
#Hands Quotes
#People Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Source : "Growing up with quantum field theory: The development of quantum electrodynamics. In: The birth of particle physics" edited by L.M. Brown and L. Hoddeson, Cambridge University Press, (p. 75), 1983.
#Successful Quotes
#Self Confidence Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“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."”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#Long Quotes
#Atheism Quotes
#Doe Quotes
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“God is so great, he does not even need to exist.”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#Doe Quotes
#Needs Quotes
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“To understand hydrogen is to understand all of physics.”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#Hydrogen Quotes
#Physics Quotes
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“When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#Music Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Tough Quotes
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“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.”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Source : Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, p.74, Springer Science & Business Media
#Funny Quotes
#Stupid Quotes
#Science Quotes
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“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.”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#Men Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Brain Quotes
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“Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Source : Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, Springer Science & Business Media
#Compassion Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Pillars Quotes
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“Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.”
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#Adults Quotes
#Scientist Quotes
#Not Sure Quotes
