Quotes About Progress

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I can look it up.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

We are increasingly becoming cyborg-like beings. We are becoming literally what we create. Biology, physics, and technology are evolving towards one and the same thing.

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

When you need to make changes, even when people don't want to change, you have to pick the company up and change it, even if it means cannibalizing yourself.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

I'm not one that sulks when he's injured. I use it as time to learn, to pick up on things.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.