Quote by Denise Kiernan

“Fermi turned to Bohr with weary eyes and a slanted smile, and shrugged. “So we thought we had discovered new elements. We even named…

— Gregory Benford

“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905…

— Louis de Broglie

“Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge…

— Gregory Benford

“I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

— Frederik Pohl

“there was much breathless talk of new elements, bizarre optical properties, and other things which puzzled men of science are wont to say when…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“She considered hypothesis 3 to be quite unlikely, since she didn’t feel the least bit psychopathic, but included it in the list out of…

— Neal Stephenson

“What was the nature of the universe into which she had been born? Why did it exist at all? If it had a purpose,…

— Terry Pratchett

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man;…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures…

— Lee Smolin

“You're still just silicon," he said, as he turned the page. "And you're just carbon," Art persevered. "Since when has the periodic table been…

— Bernard Beckett

“I'm convinced that Theoretical Physicist is just another way of saying BS Artist.”

— J.C. Cassels