Famous Words of Science...
"In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting." --Lord Kelvin
"I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity." --Isidor Isaac Rabi
"Physics is not my job; it is my life." -- Maria Spiropulu
“There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi." -- Luis Walter Alvarez
"Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but they're not entitled to their own facts. The data is the data." -- Maria Spiropulu
"Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space."
-- Leon Foucault
"I'll take the question and make a pseudo-invariant transformation that makes it more apt to my brain." -- Maria Spiropulu
--Henry H. Fischer
"The world is what you measure." -- Maria Spiropulu
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. "
--Richard P. Feynman
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
-- Richard P. Feynman