Bells Quote by William Poundstone

“Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have…

— Jeremy Campbell

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he…

— Hermann Minkowski

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

— Gordon Gee

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence

— Enrico Fermi

Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have seen that…

— Robert J. Shiller

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919…

— Albert Einstein

“Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal…

— Pam Grout

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

— Rudolf Ladenburg

“Despite the earnest belief of most of his fans, Einstein did not win his Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity, special or general.…

— Sam Kean

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

— Bo Burnham