Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Ehrenfest

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Paul Ehrenfest was an Austrian theoretical physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem. He bonded with Albert Einstein on a visit to Prague in 1912 and became a professor in Leiden, where he frequently hosted Einstein.

Austrian - Physicist | January 18, 1880 - September 25, 1933

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No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

Paul Ehrenfest

Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.

Paul Ehrenfest

Physics is simple, but subtle.

Paul Ehrenfest

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

Paul Ehrenfest

A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all.

Paul Ehrenfest

You will get your difficulties with the point electron.

Paul Ehrenfest

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Ehrenfest

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