Began Quote by James Cronin

During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

— James Cronin

I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely…

— Chien-Shiung Wu

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

— Werner Heisenberg

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

— John Maynard Keynes

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

— James Cronin

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974…

— Simon van der Meer

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Doomsday, when it came, wouldn't be a physical phenomenon; it would be an all-inclusive erasure of simulectronic circuits.”

— Daniel F. Galouye

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

— Martin Rees

“Scientific American called “100 Years of Quantum Mysteries,”

— Max Tegmark

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have…

— Frederick Reines