Nicolaas Bloembergen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible.
-- Nicolaas Bloembergen

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I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.
-- Nicolaas Bloembergen

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Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.
-- Nicolaas Bloembergen

#Responsibility
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.
-- Nicolaas Bloembergen

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Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

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