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If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

~Ivar Giaever

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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

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You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

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There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

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When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

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My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

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While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

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I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

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There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

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Biography

Nationality: Norwegian

Type: Physicist

Born: April 5th, 1929

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