Burton Richter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
-- Burton Richter

#Innovation #Renewal #Laboratory
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
-- Burton Richter

#Moving #Long #Innovation
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
-- Burton Richter

#Technology #Years #Interesting
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
-- Burton Richter

#Mistake #Sometimes #Obsolescence
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
-- Burton Richter

#New York #Children #March
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
-- Burton Richter

#Issues #Energy #Directors
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
-- Burton Richter

#Jobs #Ideas #Community
Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.
-- Burton Richter

#Technology #Energy #Needs

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.
To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.
Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.
I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.

Burton Richter famous quotes

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