I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense curiosity that no Keep Out sign could mute. Physicists do, of course, show a healthy… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors. — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
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