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* ''If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.'' ([https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/einstein/facts/ Albert Einstein]) | * ''If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.'' ([https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/einstein/facts/ Albert Einstein]) | ||
* ''Scientists often have an experience that is deeply enlightening, and is not granted to everyone. It is the experience of finding that you have been wrong about something.'' ([https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/weinberg/facts/ Steven Weinberg]). | * ''Scientists often have an experience that is deeply enlightening, and is not granted to everyone. It is the experience of finding that you have been wrong about something.'' ([https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/weinberg/facts/ Steven Weinberg]). | ||
* ''The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Henri Poincaré]) | |||
* ''A man will turn over half a library to write one book''. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson Samuel Johnson]) | * ''A man will turn over half a library to write one book''. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson Samuel Johnson]) | ||
* ''Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm''. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Waldo Emerson]) | * ''Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm''. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Waldo Emerson]) | ||
Revision as of 10:17, 1 March 2020
- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
- Scientists often have an experience that is deeply enlightening, and is not granted to everyone. It is the experience of finding that you have been wrong about something. (Steven Weinberg).
- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. (Henri Poincaré)
- A man will turn over half a library to write one book. (Samuel Johnson)
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Waldo Emerson)
