"Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist."

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Source : "Growing up with quantum field theory: The development of quantum electrodynamics. In: The birth of particle physics" edited by L.M. Brown and L. Hoddeson, Cambridge University Press, (p. 75), 1983.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

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“As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.”
“It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.”
“The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 130), 1895.
“After a great game or a great practice, man, I feel on top of the world.”
“As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?”

Source : "Arnold’s Language Barrier", www.motherjones.com. September 8, 2003.
“It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.”
“A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But thatâ€™s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasnâ€™t a faith worth keeping.”
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”

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