"There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi."

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Source : "The Politics of Pure Science". Book by Daniel S. Greenberg, p. 43, 1967.

Luis Walter Alvarez

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“Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.”
“It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,”

Source : "Atheist finds 'God' after 50 years" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.
“The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.”

Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.6
“The difference between success and failure is work.”
“Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.”
“Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.”
“Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory.”

Source : "Warren Bartlett Walsh". Book by Warren Bartlett Walsh, 3rd edition, p. 694, 1959.
“I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.”

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