German Physicist Quotations

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

My argument was that we could not stop Hitler by cooperating with other bourgeois parties but that only a united working class could stop him.

I went first to France and then to England where I studied and at the same time I tried to make a serious study of the basic Marxist philosophy.

Our arrangement therefore consisted of two needle counters, past the common front wall of which, without touching it, swept a beam of X-rays.

Film consumption however was so enormous that our laboratory with the film strips strung up for drying sometimes resembled an industrial laundry.

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.