Giaever Ivar Quotes & Sayings

I'm a skeptic ... Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no choice. And I tell you how many scientists support that. But the number of scientists is not important. The only thing that's important is if the scientists are correct; that's the important part. — Ivar Giaever

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

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

Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely. — Ivar Giaever

To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong. — Ivar Giaever

The question "Who am I?" really asks, "Where do I belong or fit?" We get the sense of that "direction" -- the sense of moving toward the place where we fit, or of shaping the place toward which we are moving so that it will fit us -- from hearing how others have handled or are attempting to handle similar (but never exactly the same) situations. We learn by listening to their stories, by hearing how they came (or failed) to belong or fit. — Ernest Kurtz

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money. — Ivar Giaever

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former. — Richard Pound

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. — Ivar Giaever

Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that "in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis". — Mark Steyn

Never judge a book by it's cover. — Anonymous

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. — Ivar Giaever

If journeys came with rulebooks, he'd probably just disobeyed every word. — Heather Burch

I am a skeptic ... Global warming has become a new religion. — Ivar Giaever

Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people. — Joel Kinnaman

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world. — Ivar Giaever

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills. — Ivar Giaever

If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out. — Ivar Giaever

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. — Ivar Giaever

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

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. — Ivar Giaever

I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God. — Lauryn Hill

We've been best friends forever and now he can't even talk to me? — Miranda Kenneally

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. — Ivar Giaever

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory. — Ivar Giaever

I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem. — Ivar Giaever

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is unrelenting in seeking to convert every area of our hearts and lives. The Gospel is all-encompassing. It is in fact the only source of godliness. Search anywhere else, and you have nothing more than self-reform at best and idolatry at its worst. — Barbara Hughes

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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. — Ivar Giaever

It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste. — Kevin Smith

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