Hermann Minkowski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.
-- Hermann Minkowski

#Science #Lectures
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron is no working hypothesis, but a working hindrance. Approaching Maxwell's equations with the concept of the rigid electron seems to me the same thing as going to a concert with your ears stopped up with cotton wool. We must admire the courage and the power of the school of the rigid electron which leaps across the widest mathematical hurdles with fabulous hypotheses, with the hope to land safely over there on experimental-physical ground.
-- Hermann Minkowski

#School #Views #Land
Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.
-- Hermann Minkowski

#Fountainhead #Mathematics #Integers
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
-- Hermann Minkowski

#Independent #Reality #Two
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.
-- Hermann Minkowski

#Color #Heaven #Arrogance
The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.
-- Hermann Minkowski

#Zurich #Young #Mathematical

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
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.
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.
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.

Hermann Minkowski famous quotes

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