Cool Quote by Donna Strickland

Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he…

— Donna Strickland

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a…

— Jack Steinberger

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

— Ted Nelson

There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.

— Bill Foster

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

— Eric Betzig

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to…

— Seth Lloyd

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

— Kyle Chandler

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is…

— Charles Hard Townes

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

— Ernest Rutherford

I am glad I did my Masters.

— Koena Mitra

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the…

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

I only learned what an engineer was from a college guidance counselor. When she described it, a light clicked on in my head, and…

— Grant Imahara