"It was a bank holiday, and Mr Tompkins, the little clerk of a big city bank, slept late and had a leisurely breakfast…"

"There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the f…"

"It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. …"

"With very few exceptions, philosophers do not know much science and do not understand it, which is quite natural beca…"

"I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute w…"

"I feel that matter has properties which physics tells you."

"So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in."

"If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the gala…"

"It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five bill…"

"The physicist George Gamow was also an entertaining popularizer. He once told the story of how with his wife and thei…"