Calculations Quote by Chaim Weizmann

People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the…

— Heidi Hammel

It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery…

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

— Chaim Weizmann

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon

“The genius of men like Newton and Einstein lies in that: they ask transparent, innocent questions which turn out to have catastrophic answers. The…

— Jacob Bronowski

No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of…

— C.P. Snow

“True genius is the one of the heart, not of intellect. Because intellect-less heart, though exploited a lot, still does good, whereas heartless intellect,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Einstein also recognized the power of simplicity, and it was the key to his breakthroughs in physics. He noted that the five ascending levels…

— Mohnish Pabrai

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

— Bindi Irwin

Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass…

— Krista Tippett

Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to…

— Gerald Weinberg