Quotes About Mlodinow

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth.

I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club.

Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors.

Newton was "not finally reducible to the criteria by which we comprehend our fellow human beings.

In 1932, after nineteen years of research, Bartlett published his results.

The Nazis confiscated his personal property, burned his works on relativity, and put a five-thousand-dollar bounty on his head.

1943 Bohr was tipped off by the Swedish ambassador in Copenhagen that he faced immediate arrest as part of the plan to deport all of Denmark's Jews.

Instead, like Heisenberg, his priority seemed to be to preserve as much of German science as possible, while complying with all Nazi laws and regulations.