Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
MysteriesPhysicsInvestigation We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?
PhysicsObservationUnderstandingDiscovery We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.
PhysicsDiscoveryQuantum MechanicsCounterintuitive Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
DiscoveryInnovationPhysicsRulesExploration From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work - not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.
CourageInnovationPhysicsDiscoveryInspiration When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
EducationBackgroundEngineeringPhysicsEconomics My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
SciencePhysicsQuarks Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.