Quotable Quotes
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- "I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of
the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth
even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is
there even if I am not looking at it."
- "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an
hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a
minute. THAT'S relativity."
- William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1821-1907)
- When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers,
you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you
cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory
kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your
thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.
(Popular Lectures and Addresses [1891-1894])
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