Biographies Quote by Paul Dirac

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying…

— Paul Dirac

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

— Paul Dirac

Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein.

— Werner Heisenberg

Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist,…

— Arthur Koestler

“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet,” the Danish Nobel physicist Niels Bohr once said.”

— Satya Nadella

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend…

— John Cleese

“...surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr’s country house, a fellow scientist exclaimed that he did not share the superstitious belief…

— Slavoj Žižek

“The Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr defined an expert as follows: ‘An expert is a man who has made all the…

— Emma Sadleir

“I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the…

— Werner Heisenberg

“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

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some…

— Noam Chomsky

“Niels Bohr, the great Dane of quantum physics, was fond of saying, "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to…

— David Mitchell