Abraham Pais Quotes

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

- Ernest Rutherford

Physicist

· New Zealand

• Odds
• Science

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It’s just amazing what living things can do.

- Paul Davies

Physicist

· Australia

• Miracle
• Physicist

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Physicist

· Germany

• Hands
• Time

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

- Isaac Newton

Physicist

· England

• Lord
• One Thing
• Scripture

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

- John Archibald Wheeler

Physicist

· USA

• Funny
• Happenings
• Time

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. Explain

- Stephen Hawking

Physicist

· England

• Challenge
• Work Out

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

- Leo Szilard

Physicist

· Hungary

• Experts
• Irritated

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

- Richard P. Feynman

Physicist

· USA

• Average
• Nobel
• Persons

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

- Enrico Fermi

Physicist

· Italy

• Ignorance
• Knowledge

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don’t know, not a weakness to avoid.

- Neil Gershenfeld

Physicist

• Findings
• Process
• Weakness