20th century Quote by David Lee

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe…

— Ben Stein

Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found…

— Mildred S. Dresselhaus

The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred.…

— Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if…

— Martin Fleischmann

There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.

— David Lee

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.

— David Lee

When the moon was first visited in 1969, the astronauts brought back a treasure trove of unique minerals. Contained within specimens was an isotope…

— Homer Hickam

“I regard breathing industrial gas to be as harmful as heavy smoking.”

— Steven Magee

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask…

— Jill Tarter

Well I’ve been doing it for about twenty years, I did films when I was a little kid, when I was about six or…

— Andrea Libman

“On Earth, we’d just use glue, but here the only fluid was helium, which has lots of interesting properties, but is definitely not sticky.”

— Joe Haldeman

Sometimes, when people are talking to me about something I have no interest in and that glazed over look takes me, I imagine the…

— Anonymous