All Luis Walter Alvarez Quotes
- 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 am… Believe
- 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… All
- 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,… All
- [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of… Advice
- There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. Democracy
- Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." Announced