May 1: Gersh Budker quotes

Physics Quotes of the Day for May 1st

Gersh Itskovich Budker (Герш Ицкович Будкер), also named Alexander Mikhailovich Budker, (May 1, 1918 in Murafa, near Vinnytsia -- July 4, 1977 in Akademgorodok)

Quotes can be looked up at wikiquote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gersh_Budker
"They took my driver's licence away because I tried to solve scientific problems as I drove, and I had a few small accidents. But now they let me drive again if I promise not to try to solve any more problems."

"An intelligent person should never resolve a dispute with brute force."

"It is so difficult to find something interesting and new, but instead of helping me to develop fledgling ideas in their infancy, you guys immediately look for a way to attack them."

"The problem of thermonuclear reactions is not a usual physics problem. This is a problem that must transform society and the world. Our generation, which gave to mankind atomic energy and thermonuclear energy in the form of explosions, is responsible to humanity for solving the main problem of energy - obtaining energy from water. People are waiting for the solution of this problem. Our duty is to solve it within the lifetime of our generation, and therefore we must set out on this path."

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