Jack Steinberger quotes

Jack Steinberger was a German-American physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. His work was fundamental in the discovery of the muon neutrino, advancing our understanding of subatomic particles. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for this groundbreaking research. Here are 14 of his quotes:

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business. (Jack Steinberger)

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

Jack Steinberger

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Jack Steinberger

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

Jack Steinberger

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Jack Steinberger

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

Jack Steinberger

You only have one life. Whatever crops up, crops up.

Jack Steinberger

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people... than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

Jack Steinberger

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

Jack Steinberger

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation. (Jack Steinberger)

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

Jack Steinberger

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

Jack Steinberger

I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

Jack Steinberger

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Occupation: German-American Physicist
Born: May 25, 1921
Died: December 12, 2020
Quotes count: 14
Wikipedia: Jack Steinberger

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