Quotes by Felix Bloch

• Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
• But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
• Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
• It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
• It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.