Victor Frederick Weisskopf Quotes

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

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Music, Two, Tough

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

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Compassion, Two, Pillars

  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

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• God is so great, he does not even need to exist.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Doe, Needs

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1991). “The joy of insight: passions of a physicist”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Adults, Scientist, Not Sure

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• Era absolutamente maravilloso trabajar para Pauli. Podías preguntarle cualquier cosa. No había que preocuparse de que pensara que una pregunta en particular era estúpida, ya que pensaba que todas las preguntas eran estúpidas.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Divertido, Estúpido, Ciencia

  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

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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."

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Long, Atheism, Doe

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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.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Men, Ideas, Brain

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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.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Hands, People, Important

  "Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics" by David Kaiser, University of Chicago Press, (p. 336), 2005.

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

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Self Confidence, Successful, Important

  "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.

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