George Gamow

There was a young fellow from Trinity, He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

— George Gamow

I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.

— George Gamow

I feel that matter has properties which physics tells you.

— George Gamow

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

— George Gamow

If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

— 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!

— George Gamow