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When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Music Two Tough

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God is so great, he does not even need to exist.
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Doe Needs

Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1991). “The joy of insight: passions of a physicist”, Basic Books (AZ)

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In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Long Atheism Doe

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In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.
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Men Ideas Brain

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Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Compassion Two Pillars

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

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Conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.
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Hands People Important

"Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics" by David Kaiser, University of Chicago Press, (p. 336), 2005.

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Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.
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Adults Scientist Not Sure

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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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Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Funny Stupid Science

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

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Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Self Confidence Successful Important

"Growing up with quantum field theory: The development of quantum electrodynamics. In: The birth of particle physics" edited by L.M. Brown and L. Hoddeson, Cambridge University Press, (p. 75), 1983.

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