Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by George Gamow

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian physicist George Gamow.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

George Gamow, born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov, was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. He discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model and the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus, and worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis and Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and molecular genetics.

Russian - Physicist | March 4, 1904 - August 19, 1968

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All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter.

George Gamow

I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.

George Gamow

My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.

George Gamow

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

George Gamow

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

George Gamow

If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

George Gamow

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this "blunder," rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter ? rears its ugly head again and again and again.

George Gamow

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

George Gamow

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

George Gamow

So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

George Gamow

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.

George Gamow

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

George Gamow

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

George Gamow

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by George Gamow

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