"It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid."

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Source : Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, p.74, Springer Science & Business Media

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Funny Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Science Quotes

“A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.”
“The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.”

Source : "Stein v. New York, 346 U.S. 156, 184". Judicial opinion, 1953.
“Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
“Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.”
“Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.”
“I get so high when you're with me then crash and crave you when you leave”
“I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.”
“I think if I ever get satisfied, Iâ€™ll have to stop. Itâ€™s the frustration that drives you.”

Source : "Eve Arnold obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2012.

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