Europe Quote by Ernest Rutherford

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays..

— William Cecil Dampier

[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to…

— Walead Beshty

“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

“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted…

— Walter Isaacson

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes. { Advising his student, Max…

— Philipp von Jolly

When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics…

— Max Planck

This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting…

— Isaac Newton

“physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe.”

— Max Tegmark

Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for…

— Robert Kirshner

“But it remains a fundamental challenge to understand the very beginning-this must await a 'final' theory, perhaps some variant of superstrings. Such a theory…

— Martin Rees

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

— Ray Davies