(1)Oppenheimer: "When ordinary people give a talk it is to tell you how to do it. However, when Julian Schwinger gives a talk, it is to tell you that only he can do it"

(2)Bernard Shaw : "There are two types of people, those who adjust to the world and those who do not. It is the later type that change the world."

(3)Einstein:"I would have been sorry for the dear Lord, because "the theory is correct" ", was what Einstein replied when a student asked him what he would have done if his predictions were refuted in the experiment that confirmed defection of light by the sun.

(4)Dirac: "Principle of Mathematical Beauty" we do not really know what the basic equations of physics are, but they have to have a great mathematical beauty. We must insist on that.

On QED: " I might have thought that new ideas were correct, if they had not been so ugly"

(5) Freeman Dyson: " My mother used to say that life begins at fourty. That was her age when she had her first baby. I say , that the life begins at fifty-five, the age at which I published my first book".

(6) Dyson: " At its worst, work is slavery. At its best, work is a sustained and lifelong conversation".

(7)Feynman: " When we do scientific research, when we publish our results", we should try to think of every possible way we could be wrong".

(8) Poet Stanley Kunitz: " A poet cannot concern himself with being fair to the reader. Time will tell. All poems contain a degree of mystry, as poetary is a discovery of one's hidden self. .... Poetary is not concerned with communication; it has roots in magic, incantation, and spell-casting"

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