Currents Quote by Abraham Pais Download Open image “A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...” — Abraham Pais ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Currents Exploration Fancy Numbers Passing Passings Theoretical Travel Turns
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory… — Val Logsdon Fitch Copy Share Image
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration. — David E. Goldberg Copy Share Image
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have… — Frederick Reines Copy Share Image
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“Special relativity killed the classical dream of using the energy-momentum-velocity relations of a particle as a means of probing the dynamic origins of its… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present,… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“All modern work on unification may be said to represent a program of geometrization that resembles Einstein's earlier attempts, although the manifold subject to… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“Promising steps have been made toward grand unification, the union of weak, electromagnetic, and strong interactions in one compact, non-Abelian gauge group. In most… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not… — Thom Andersen Copy Share Image
I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
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