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

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

Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Music, Two, Tough

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

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

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

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

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Adults, Scientist, Not Sure

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."

Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Long, Atheism, Doe

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.

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

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.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Men, Ideas, Brain

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.

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

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

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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