Quotes of: Kant Keyword

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

Burton Richter

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

Bill Wyman

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

Charles Glover Barkla

Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

Garik Israelian

There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

Garik Israelian

When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.

Gregory Stock

Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Geoffrey West

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

Howard Carter

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

Hermann von Helmholtz

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

John Polkinghorne