George Gamow

“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!”

“Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this 'blunder,' rejec...”

“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed through the four independent basic...”

“When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.”

“My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Bl...”