Humor Quotes

Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.

21194 quotes

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"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."
Enrico Fermi
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"One must not work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess."
Niels Bohr
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"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I would have been a botanist."
Niels Bohr
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"Nature has a sense of humor, but it is usually at our expense."
Niels Bohr
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"Every man has certain common sense unless he is a physicist."
Max Planck
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"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I would have been a botanist."
Enrico Fermi
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"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I assure you that mine are still greater."
Enrico Fermi
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"The universe is a funny place."
Enrico Fermi
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"Humor is the finest faculty of the human mind."
Enrico Fermi
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"Anybody who comes to a physicist and has read somewhat about modern physics knows that he is in the soup, as the saying goes."
Werner Heisenberg
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"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I do not think he will have a good answer for the third one."
Werner Heisenberg
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"If you wish to learn from theoretical physicists anything about the methods of theoretical physics, you will be led up the garden path."
Werner Heisenberg
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"Humor helps us cope with and transcend difficult times."
Jane Goodall
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"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
Niels Bohr
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"A physicist is someone who believes he has understood a problem after working on it for only a year."
Niels Bohr
"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater."
Richard Feynman
"A Feynman, a Fermi, and a Fowler walk into a bar."
Richard Feynman
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"The universe behaves as if it had a sense of humor."
Werner Heisenberg
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"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them."
Niels Bohr
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"The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody."
Niels Bohr
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"Humor helps us cope with life's challenges and connect with others."
Jane Goodall
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"The more one chases rabbits, the more convinced one becomes that they exist."
Werner Heisenberg
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"One should not work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether they really exist."
Werner Heisenberg
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"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Werner Heisenberg
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"The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!"
Werner Heisenberg
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"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I do not think he will have a good answer for either."
Werner Heisenberg
"It is far better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
Richard Feynman
"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Richard Feynman
"An expert is someone who has made every possible mistake in a narrow field."
Richard Feynman
"Humor in the face of adversity is the mark of true human dignity."
Louis Pasteur