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It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold.

— George Gamow Thirty Years That Shook Physics : The Story of Quantum Theory (1966)

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But while in the free countries philosophers are quite harmless, in the dictatorial countries they constitute a great danger for the development of science.

My World Line : An Informal Autobiography (1970)

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

The Creation of the Universe (1952)

If only there were at least one film with some real adventure, something unusual and maybe even fantastic about it.

Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland (1939)

I feel that matter has properties which physics tells you.

There was a young fellow from Trinity,
Who took the square root of infinity.
But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;
He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

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