Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

John Nelson Darby

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.

James Franck

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

John Holdren

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

Frederick Reines

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

Joseph Rotblat

General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

Lee Smolin

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.

Michael Behe

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

Sean M. Carroll

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

Seth Lloyd

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Timothy Radcliffe

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Isaac Davis: When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg Award.

Manhattan

[Looking at old meat] Isaac Davis: Corn beef should not be blue

Manhattan

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Aristotle

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Lene Hau

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Robert South

Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Willard Van Orman Quine

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Anthony Doerr