Victor Frederick Weisskopf famous quotes

03-25-2025

conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Hands #People #Important
Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Successful #Self Confidence #Important
In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Long #Atheism #Doe
God is so great, he does not even need to exist.
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Doe #Needs
To understand hydrogen is to understand all of physics.
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Hydrogen #Physics
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Music #Two #Tough
It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Funny #Stupid #Science
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Men #Ideas #Brain
Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Compassion #Two #Pillars
Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.
-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Adults #Scientist #Not Sure

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