« All Starlight Quotes
·
David Gross's Page
Starlight Quotes by David Gross
1 Starlight quote by David Gross
More Quotes by David Gross
David Gross has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
-
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were…
-
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all…
-
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science…
-
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,…
-
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as…
-
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
-
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of…
-
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are…
-
Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
-
Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve -…
-
Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
See all 22 quotes by David Gross »
More Starlight Quotes
Popular Starlight quotes from across the collection:
-
A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a…
— Kenneth Rexroth
-
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the…
— George Wald
-
Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.
— Stephen Foster
-
I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world…
— Edward Abbey
-
Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and…
— Charles Lamb
-
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his…
— Anton Chekhov
-
One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of…
— Hermann Weyl
-
I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of…
— Ayn Rand
-
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
— Hermann Weyl
-
Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in…
— Unknown Author
-
Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open,…
— Frances O'Roark Dowell
-
Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.
— Robert W. Service
See all Starlight Quotes »
Browse David Gross Quotes by Category