George Gamow quotes

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! (George Gamow)
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer. View quote
George Gamow
So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in. View quote
George Gamow
I decided to get Ph. D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance. View quote
George Gamow
I feel that matter has properties which physics tells you. View quote
George Gamow
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity. View quote
George Gamow
If only there were at least one film with some real adventure, something unusual and maybe even fantastic about it. View quote
George Gamow
It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold. View quote
George Gamow
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. View quote
George Gamow
It was a bank holiday, and Mr Tompkins, the little clerk of a big city bank, slept late and had a leisurely breakfast. Trying to plan his day, he first thought about going to some afternoon movie and, opening the morning paper, turned to the entertainment page. But none of the films looked attractive to him. He detested all this Hollywood stuff, with infinite romances between popular stars. If only there were at least one film with some real adventure, something unusual and maybe even fantastic about it. But there was none. Unexpectedly, his eye fell on a little notice in the corner of the page. The local university was announcing a series of lectures on the problems of modern physics, and this afternoon's lecture was to be about Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Well, that might be something! View quote
George Gamow