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Here are some of my favorites. I don't have any references to when or where
these were spoken/written. In fact, it may be that some of them are
inaccurate. But they are fun.

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I do not like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
      -- E. Schrodinger [on quantum mechanics]
 
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics
cannot possibly have understood it.
	-- Niels Bohr
 
  Surely, Professor Bohr, you do not really believe that a horseshoe over
the entrance to a home brings good luck?
  No, I certainly do not believe in this superstition. But you know, they
say it brings luck even if you don't believe in it.
      -- A house visitor and Niels Bohr
 
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
	-- Albert Einstein
 
But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the
depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that
clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this
was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's
mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.
	-- Albert Einstein
 
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you
that mine are still greater.
      -- Albert Einstein
 
Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures....I certainly never would
have thought he could do it.
	-- Herman Minkowski
 
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
for Nature cannot be fooled. 
     -- Richard P. Feynman
 
The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the
sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.
       -- Richard P. Feynman
 
Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me
anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and
had never heard anything about physics!
	-- Wolfgang Pauli
 
By nature I am peacefully inclined and reject all doubtful adventures.
But a theoretical interpretation had to be found at all costs, no matter
how high . . . I was ready to sacrifice every one of my previous 
convictions about physical laws.
      -- Max Planck

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Erik Reuter, e-reuter@uiuc.edu