Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American physicist Victor Frederick Weisskopf.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Niels Bohr. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and he later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

American - Physicist | September 19, 1908 - April 22, 2002

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It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

God is so great, he does not even need to exist.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf