Science
- “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” ~ Wernher von Braun (1912 – 1977, Rocket engineer and designer)
- “Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.” ~ Claude Bernard (1813 – 1878, French physiologist)
- “Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.” ~ Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970, British philosopher, logician, and mathematician)
- “A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do that.” ~ Gordon L. Glegg (1969) (Speaking of Science. Notable Quotes on. Science, Engineering, and the Environment by Jon Fripp, Michael Fripp, and Deborah Fripp)
- “Science is the way to not fool ourselves.” ~ Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996, American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist)
- “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” ~ Plato (428 – 348 BC, a philosopher in Classical Greece)
- “God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and the Devil runs it by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.” ~ Sir William Henry Bragg
- “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”
[“Kâinatla ilgili en anlaşılmaz olan şey, kâinatın anlaşılabilir olmasıdır.”] ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Physics and Reality, 1936. - “You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.” ~ Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, 1982.
- “Basic research may or may not lead to new technologies. Our safest bet in this gamble is to give our brightest minds the funding and freedom to dream big.” ~ Helmut Schwarz
- “Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.”, Dr. Theodore von Kármán, a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics.
- “Mühendisler üretecekleri sistemin harekatta nasıl kullanılacağını bilirlerse, askerler de kullanacakları sistemlerin teknolojisi hakkında fikir sahibi olurlarsa sistemler başarıya ulaşır.”, Dr. Theodore von Kármán
Mathematics
- “Nature is a book written in the language of mathematics. If we cannot understand that language, we will be doomed to wander about as if in a dark labyrinth.”
[“Evren dediğimiz kitap, yazıldığı dil ve harfler öğrenilmedikçe anlaşılamaz. Matematik dilinde yazılmış bu kitapta harfler üçgen, daire ve diğer geometrik şekillerdir. Bu dil ve harfleri öğrenmedikçe kitabın tek bir sözcüğünü bile anlayamaz, karanlık bir labirentte dolanıp dururuz.”] ~ Galileo Galilei (1564-1642, Father of Modern Science) - “Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.”
[“Hayat sadece iki şey için güzeldir. Matematiği keşfetme ve öğretme.”] ~ Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781-1840) - “There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not someday be applied to phenomena of the real world.”
[“Matematiğin hiçbir dalı yoktur ki, ne kadar soyut olursa olsun, bir gün gerçek dünyada tatbik sahası bulmasın.”] ~ Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856) - “Since Newton, mankind has come to realize that the laws of physics are always expressed in the language of differential equations.” ~ Steven Strogatz
- “If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things; first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.” ~ Arnold Sommerfeld
Life & Physics
- “Societies that want to live comfortably without working, getting tired, and producing, are destined to lose first their dignity, then their freedom, then their independence and future.”
[“Çalışmadan, yorulmadan ve üretmeden, rahat yaşamak isteyen toplumlar; evvela haysiyetlerini, sonra hürriyetlerini daha sonra da istiklal ve istikballerini kaybetmeye mahkumdurlar.”] ~ Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - “Bilinenin ötesine seyahat etmek; duyulmamış olanı araştırmak; korkutucu, basmakalıp zihinlerin ayak basmadığı yerlerden geçerek yol açmak, yaratıcı yeteneğin doğasında vardır. Bu fikir-araştırma keşiflerinin başarıyla sonuçlanacağının bir garantisi olmadığından; kâşiflere arama isteklerini sürdürebilmeleri için, hata yapma toleransı tanınmalıdır.” ~ Keith Reinhard
- “Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, and lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, and some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.” ~ Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
- What is Success? “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Başarı Nedir? “Başarı, sık sık gülmek ve çok sevmektir; Akıllı insanların saygısını ve çocukların sevgisini kazanmaktır. Dürüst eleştirmenlerin onayını almak, sahte dostların arkadan vurmalarına dayanmaktır. Güzeli sevmektir; herkesteki en iyiyi bulmaktır. Karşılık beklemeyi hiç düşünmeden kendiliğinden vermektir. Geride ister sağlıklı bir çocuk, ister kurtarılmış bir ruh, ister bir parça yeşil bahçe, ister iyileştirilen bir sosyal durum bırakarak dünyanın iyileşmesine katkıda bulunmaktır. Gönlünce eğlenmek ve gülmek. kendinden geçerek şarkı söylemektir. Tek bir kişi bile olsa, birinin sizin varlığınızdan ötürü daha rahat nefes aldığını bilmektir. İşte bu başarılı olmaktır.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - “Most people who haven’t been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that’s not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works. ” ~ Edward Witten (1951- ..)
- “The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? … It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.” ~ Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), 1879.
- “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” ~ Werner Karl Heisenberg
- “… the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his belief ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.” ~ James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879)
- “Truth has no greater enemy than its unwise defenders, and no warmer friends than those who, receiving it in a meek and tolerant spirit, respect the conscientious convictions of others, and seek, in study and in prayer, for the best solution of mysterious and incomprehensible revelations.”
~ David Brewster, In his Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: 1855) (kaleidoscope) - “The theory first decides what can be observed.” (“Erst die Theorie entscheidet darüber, was man beobachten kann.“) ~ Albert Einstein
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, I am not sure about the former.”
“A theory can be proved by experiment, but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.” ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - “Much of our universe is a mystery to anyone but a mathematical physicist.”
[“Evrenin büyük bir bölümü matematik fizikçileri dışındaki herkes için bir gizemdir.“] ~ Robyn Arianrhod - “Teach us to study the work of Thy hands that we may subdue the earth to our uses, and strengthen our reason for Thy service.”
[“Yeryüzündeki herşeyi kullanımımız altına alabilmek için bizlere Senin eserlerinin üzerinde çalışmayı öğret ve Sana hizmet etmek için aklımızı güçlendir.“] ~ daily prayer of James Clerk Maxwell [1986 James Clerk Maxwell and religion] - “Elegance is the concern of cobblers and tailors.” [“Zarafet, ayakkabı tamircilerinin ve terzilerin ilgi alanıdır.”] (“Eleganz sei die Sache der Schuster und Schneider.”) ~ Ludwig Boltzmann
- “Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.” ~ Nikola Tesla
- “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”
“But it is certainly not our responsibility to tell God how to rule the universe.” ~ Niels Bohr - “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” ~ Richard Phillips Feynman
- “I have always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worthwhile task of science.” ~ Max Planck
- “PHILOSOPHER: You are not living to satisfy other people’s expectations, and neither am I. It is not necessary to satisfy other people’s expectations.
YOUTH: That is such a self-serving argument! Are you saying one should think only about oneself and live self-righteously?
PHILOSOPHER: In the teachings of Judaism, one finds a view that goes something like this: If you are not living your life for yourself, then who is going to live it for you? You are living only your own life. When it comes to who you are living it for, of course, it’s you. And then, if you are not living your life for yourself, who could there be to live it instead of you? Ultimately, we live thinking about “I.” There is no reason that we must not think that way.
YOUTH: So you are afflicted by the poison of nihilism, after all. You say that, ultimately, we live thinking about “I”? And that that’s okay? What a wretched way of thinking!
PHILOSOPHER: It is not nihilism at all. Rather, it’s the opposite. When one seeks recognition from others, and concerns oneself only with how one is judged by others, in the end, one is living other people’s lives.” Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga (2013). The Courage to Be Disliked, Atria Books.
Links
Famous Quotes on Mathematics – Mathematical Physics Quotations
Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities
Real Life Comics
- “Once you get a B.S., you think you know everything. Once you get an M.S., you realize you know nothing. Once you get a Ph.D., you realize no one knows anything!” ~ unknown (http://quotes.cat-v.org/science)
- Piled Higher and Deeper (also known as PhD Comics), is a newspaper and webcomic strip
- Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings – marketoonist
