Ballet Quote by W. H. Auden

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too…

— Eugene Wigner

Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

— David Perlmutter

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact,…

— Eugene Wigner

A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.

— Franz Karl Achard

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

— King Solomon

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

— Bill Mollison

“I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!”

— Ray d'Inverno

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

— Maria Montessori

The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

— William Stanley Jevons

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

— Maria Montessori