Larry Niven Quotes

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.

Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Photons have neither morals or visas.

Physicists have as their calling the answering of questions once thought to be unknowable.

Discoveries in physics are made when the time for making them is ripe, and not before.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology.

I would say the first three or four papers on nano-thermoelectricity in bismuth went almost unnoticed, but all of a sudden when Dirac cones came along - pop! - there was huge interest in bismuth-related materials.

In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.