My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
“Since the atoms are indestructible, the disintegration of human body after death should be actually considered as the dispersion of the separate filaments (except… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter. — George Gamow Copy Share Image
So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in. — George Gamow Copy Share Image
Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school. — George Gamow Copy Share Image
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home. — George Gamow Copy Share Image
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested. — George Gamow Copy Share Image
Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
