I studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you could understand all sorts of things, and I decided that chemistry and biology just had too much memory for me to be interested. Physics was very easy.
Marshall Nicholas RosenbluthTags: science biology easy empowering physics math chemistry nobel-laureate calculus
The most striking impression was that of an overwhelming bright light. I had seen under similar conditions the explosion of a large amount—100 tons—of normal explosives in the April test, and I was flabbergasted by the new spectacle. We saw the whole sky flash with unbelievable brightness in spite of the very dark glasses we wore. Our eyes were accommodated to darkness, and thus even if the sudden light had been only normal daylight it would have appeared to us much brighter than usual, but we know from measurements that the flash of the bomb was many times brighter than the sun. In a fraction of a second, at our distance, one received enough light to produce a sunburn. I was near Fermi at the time of the explosion, but I do not remember what we said, if anything. I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the earth, even though I knew that this was not possible.
Emilio SegrèTags: power light destruction physics nobel-laureate bright atom nuclear-bomb explosion atom-bomb nuke enrico-fermi
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.
Isidor Isaac RabiTags: science love existence knowledge morality world humanity expression admiration understanding meaning culture aim nobel-laureate dimension esthetics
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
Jacobus Henricus van 't HoffTags: science natural time fame discovery famous nobel-laureate name
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung.
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto.
Tags: science knowledge research chemistry nobel-laureate
As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of his subject, and to exert his influence in such a direction as will result in the best applications of the findings in his own and related fields. Thus he must help in educating the public, in the broad sense, and this means first educating himself, not only in science but in regard to the great issues confronting mankind today.
Hermann Joseph MullerTags: science future mankind danger responsibility influence public nobel-laureate educate subject scientist benefit applications
I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.
Howard FloreyTags: humor funny ignorance grave doctor nobel-laureate patients md
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
Ernst Boris ChainTags: science biology morality ethics nature laws study nobel-laureate
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.
Arthur KornbergTags: science biology children nobel-laureate germs bedtime-tales
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
Maurice WilkinsTags: science evolution natural-selection nobel-laureate dna origin-of-life genetic-material
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