John Clive Ward citations

John Clive Ward était physicien britannique.

✵ 1. août 1924 – 6. mai 2000

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“Almost all the serious achievements are simple in principle… the ideas must be sufficiently simple.”

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John Clive Ward

As quoted in [F. J. Duarte, Laser Physicist, Optics Journal, 2012, 978-0-9760383-1-3, 63]

“One day I had the idea of radiation implosion. As in all ideas that have ever popped up in my head, there is no way I can trace the source.”

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John Clive Ward

J. C. Ward, Memoirs of a Theoretical Physicist (Optics Journal, Rochester, 2004).

“math> (\left|x\right\rang \left|y\right\rang- \left|y\right\rang \left|x\right\rang) … was my first lesson in quantum mechanics, and in a very real sense my last, since the rest is mere technique, which can be learnt from books.”

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J. C. Ward, Memoirs of a Theoretical Physicist (Optics Journal, Rochester, 2004).

“Dynamical variables are what count in physics, not coordinate or gauge transformations.”

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John Clive Ward

J. C. Ward, Memoirs of a Theoretical Physicist (Optics Journal, Rochester, 2004).

“The inner mysteries of quantum mechanics require a willingness to extend one’s mental processes into a strange world of phantom possibilities, endlessly branching into more and more abstruse chains of coupled logical networks, endlessly extending themselves forward and even backwards in time.”

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John Clive Ward

J. C. Ward, Memoirs of a Theoretical Physicist (Optics Journal, Rochester, 2004).

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