David Goodstein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
-- David Goodstein

#Science #Hands #Carrying On
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
-- David Goodstein

#Civilization #Energy #Fuel
The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.
-- David Goodstein

#Teaching #Thinking #Keys
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
-- David Goodstein

#Fuel #Matter #Fossils
The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oilâ€¦. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.
-- David Goodstein

#Running #Oil #Fuel

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.
The hand is no different from what it creates.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

David Goodstein famous quotes

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