I shatter the objective universe around you, and all you can say is, There’s an error in the formulation! ibid. Heisenberg to Bohr
We turned the world inside out ... We put man back at the centre of the universe. ibid. Bohr to Heisenberg
I can only say that it worked. ibid. Heisenberg to Bohr & Mrs Bohr
The critical mass – that was the most important thing. ibid. Bohr to Heisenberg, with Mrs Bohr
And suddenly a very different and very terrible work begins to take shape. ibid. Bohr
What will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world. ibid. Mrs Bohr
Galileo was the father of modern physics. He was also a man with an extremely abrasive personality. Allan Chapman, Great Scientists: Galileo, 2004
The greatest challenge of all came from one man ... Galileo finally put Aristotle to the test. ibid.
Galileo was able to work out a uniform law of acceleration. ibid.
Galileo was living at the height of the Italian Renaissance. ibid.
Galileo refined his telescope. ibid.
Every single one of Galileo’s telescopic discoveries seemed to undermine the accepted view of the universe. ibid.
For a time his book was even banned. ibid.
We don’t know what we are talking about. Many of us believed that String Theory was a very dramatic break with our previous notions of Quantum Theory. But now we learn that string theory, well, is not that much of a break. The state of physics today is like it was when we were mystified by radioactivity. They were missing something absolutely fundamental. We are missing perhaps something as profound as they were back then. David Gross, 23rd Solvay Conference in Physics, Brussels, closing address December 2005
Our planet is filled with signals invisible to the naked eye. And space itself can be just as noisy … Radio waves, micro waves, and gamma rays … Electromagnetic radiation … Electromagnetic waves are at the heart of modern technology … One man published a set of equations in 1865. A man called James Clerk Maxwell. Iain Stewart, Scotland’s Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Changed the World, BBC 2017
James Clark Maxwell was a 19th century Scottish scientist … He caused a revolution in Physics. ibid.
Born in Edinburgh in 1831. ibid.
Saturn’s rings were made of millions of icy rocks. In recognition of his [James Clerk Maxwell] work a division between the rings is known as the Maxwell Gap. ibid.
He [James Clerk Maxwell] established that primary colours for light as red, blue and green. ibid.
Maxwell had been interested in electricity … Maxwell had followed Faraday’s work for years and set out to prove him right … Electric and magnetic fields were inextricably linked. ibid.
There was no beginning of the universe. Past, present, future. The universe has always existed and it always will. It stays the same. Hawking 2004 starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Michael Brandon & Tom Hodgkins & Lisa Dillon & Phoebe Nicholls & Adam Godley & Peter Firth & Tom Ward & John Sessions & Matthew Marsh & Alice Eve & Rohan Siva et al, director, Fred Hoyle on tele
There’s nothing wrong with feeling in science. Feeling matters. ibid. Hawking
It’s gradual paralysis. ibid. doctor
Two years probably. No more. ibid. dad
You have to fight for what you believe in tooth and nail or the buggers will stop you. ibid. tutor to Hawking
The physics is wrong. ibid. Hawking to Hoyle