Physicist Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa doesn't need any special introduction. From 1973 to 2012, he remained the permanent host of the popular science television program “Obvious - Incredible” and proved that science can be entertaining and interesting.
Remaining editor-in-chief of the journal “In the World of Science” and vice president Russian Academy natural sciences For many years, Sergei Kapitsa talked about science, technology and culture in a way that was understandable and interesting to everyone.
And to this day, his bright quotes and thoughts are more relevant than ever:
- If instead of billions which are spent on armed forces If millions were found for education and healthcare, there would be no place for terrorism.
- It is easy to gather a herd of sheep, but it is difficult to gather a herd of cats.
- History has long been an “adjective science” - it was “applied” to the point of view of this or that ruler.
- Only contradiction stimulates the development of science. It needs to be emphasized, not glossed over.
- Moscow, despite many things that irritate me, is still my city. You need to be able to filter it all out. Every person should have filters against spam.
- If you subordinate everything to money, then everything will remain money; it will not turn into either a masterpiece or a discovery..
- Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is now in the hands of those who are completely irresponsible about their role in society.
- The main miracle is that we live.
- What will remain after the current generation? Will their SMS messages be published for the edification of their descendants?
- Vulgarity can be off-putting in a woman. Sometimes she's the one who attracts you, so go figure it out..
- A suit disciplines a man and organizes him internally. Once upon a time, BBC radio announcers read the news in tuxedos and evening dresses, although listeners could not see them.
- 50 years ago there were as many bicycles on Rublyovka as there are now cars.
- Do you know what my main disagreement with the church is? I say that it was the man who invented God, and they say that it’s the other way around.
- Culture must be inculcated! Even by force. Otherwise we will all face collapse.
- Nowhere have I seen more hunted men than in America. They are in a terrible state, aggressive feminism is finishing them off.
- Women used to dress more boringly. Now there is a colossal range: from monstrous bad taste to very decently dressed people. But for some reason you notice the latter much less often than before.
- Mathematics is what the Russians teach the Chinese in American universities.
- I am a Russian Orthodox atheist.
- A modern experimental physicist needs about a million a year - for instruments, for the entire infrastructure that supports his research. Yes, it’s an expensive pleasure, but a boutique on Gorky Street costs more.
- Nothing prevents a person from becoming smarter tomorrow than he was yesterday.
- Leading means not interfering good people work.
- It is not the computer that can bring a person, but the Internet. The remarkable Russian psychologist Alexei Leontiev said in 1965: “An excess of information leads to an impoverishment of the soul.” These words should be written on every website.
Son of the laureate Nobel Prize Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and the godson of Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Sergei Kapitsa was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the TV presenter with the longest record of hosting a program. Since 1973, he has continuously hosted the popular science television program “Obvious-Incredible.” Being a scientista thinker and educator, he left us many interesting and vivid statements.
If instead of the billions that are spent on the armed forces, there were millions on education and health care, then there would be no place for terrorism.
History has long been an “adjective science” - it was “applied” to the point of view of this or that ruler.
If you subordinate everything to money, then everything will remain money; it will not turn into either a masterpiece or a discovery.
Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is now in the hands of those who are completely irresponsible about their role in society.
What will be left after the current generation? Will their SMS messages be published for the edification of their descendants?
Culture must be inculcated! Even by force. Otherwise, we will all face collapse.
Mathematics is what the Russians teach the Chinese in American universities.
I am a Russian Orthodox atheist.
A modern experimental physicist needs about a million a year - for instruments, for the entire infrastructure that supports his research. Yes, this is an expensive pleasure, but a boutique on Gorky Street costs more.
Leading means not stopping good people from working.
It is not the computer that can bring a person, but the Internet. The remarkable Russian psychologist Alexei Leontiev said in 1965: “An excess of information leads to an impoverishment of the soul.” These words should be written on every website.
Take a look at the same computers. They contain, roughly speaking, hardware and software. Software costs 10-20 times more than hardware, because the product of intellectual labor is much more difficult to create. So it is with humanity. We have as much hardware as we want - energy, weapons. And the software - name it cultural potential- is lagging behind.
It’s time to not only create good and important things, but also actively implement them. After all, the same commandment “Thou shalt not kill!” does not require explanation - it requires execution.
The son of Nobel Prize laureate Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and godson of Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Sergei Kapitsa was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the TV presenter with the longest tenure of hosting a program. Since 1973, he has continuously hosted the popular science television program “Obvious-Incredible.” Being a scientista thinker and educator, he left us many interesting and vivid statements.
If instead of the billions that are spent on the armed forces, there were millions on education and health care, then there would be no place for terrorism.
History has long been an “adjective science” - it was “applied” to the point of view of this or that ruler.
If you subordinate everything to money, then everything will remain money; it will not turn into either a masterpiece or a discovery.
Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is now in the hands of those who are completely irresponsible about their role in society.
What will be left after the current generation? Will their SMS messages be published for the edification of their descendants?
Culture must be inculcated! Even by force. Otherwise, we will all face collapse.
Mathematics is what the Russians teach the Chinese in American universities.
I am a Russian Orthodox atheist.
A modern experimental physicist needs about a million a year - for instruments, for the entire infrastructure that supports his research. Yes, this is an expensive pleasure, but a boutique on Gorky Street costs more.
Leading means not stopping good people from working.
It is not the computer that can bring a person, but the Internet. The remarkable Russian psychologist Alexei Leontiev said in 1965: “An excess of information leads to an impoverishment of the soul.” These words should be written on every website.
Take a look at the same computers. They contain, roughly speaking, hardware and software. Software costs 10-20 times more than hardware, because the product of intellectual labor is much more difficult to create. So it is with humanity. We have as much hardware as we want - energy, weapons. And the software - call it cultural capability - is lagging behind.
It’s time to not only create good and important things, but also actively implement them. After all, the same commandment “Thou shalt not kill!” does not require explanation - it requires execution.
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, (1894–1984), engineer, physicist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate in physics 1978.
You can't do good work with someone else's hands.
It used to be a common belief that discipline was needed to make a person work. This opinion is wrong and must be eradicated. If this is so, then such a person should be driven away. Discipline is needed for people to work in harmony.
Of course, you need to be able to overcome difficulties, but you also need to be able to not put them in front of yourself...
The basis of creative work is always a feeling of protest.
A person is young when he is not yet afraid to do stupid things.
Money must turn around. The faster you spend, the more you get.
Love is explained only in words, but one should write about deeds.
Where doubt ends, science ends.
The main sign of talent is when a person knows what he wants.
Science should be fun, exciting and simple. Scientists should be the same way.
The more fundamental the pattern, the simpler it can be formulated.
The interpretation of the experiment is a matter of taste.
A good experiment is one that does not agree with theory.
Science does not need to be colored with fiction. She is interesting in her own right.
Only contradiction stimulates the development of science. It needs to be emphasized, not glossed over.
The ability to restrict freedom in a country is a matter of good government manners.
If there is intuition, then there is a pattern.
Errors are not yet pseudoscience. Pseudoscience is the failure to admit mistakes.
The topic of work must be changed every eight years, since during this time the cells of the body and blood completely change - you are already a different person.
Collective creativity is nonsense, but creativity in a team is the only type of real and fruitful creativity.
When theory coincides with experiment, it is no longer a discovery, but a closure.
Deception is a necessary element of a democratic system, since the progressive principle is concentrated in a small number of people, and under democratic governance, according to the wishes of the majority, progress would be stopped.
Leading means not stopping good people from working.
Geniuses are born of an era, but it is not geniuses who give birth to an era.
There are two ways to limit a person’s freedom: through violence and through instilling conditioned reflexes in him.
The media are no less dangerous than means of mass destruction.
The entire history of mankind consists of mistakes, and, despite this, every government considers itself sinless. This is the law of nature, and it must be obeyed.
To be happy, a person must imagine himself free.
Freedom of creativity - freedom to make mistakes.
In life, a person with endurance always wins. And you have to endure it not for half an hour, but for years.
Life is like a card game that you play without knowing the rules.
In 1921, Kapitsa came to Cambridge to visit Rutherford. He refused to enroll him in his laboratory: the staff was already staffed.
- Tell me, please, professor, what is the accuracy of your work? - asked Kapitsa
- The error is approximately 10 percent.
- Therefore, you can make the same error in staffing.
Kapitsa was accepted.
Sergei Petrovich Kapitsa - Born February 14, 1928, Cambridge, England (since 1935 he lived in the USSR). Soviet and Russian physicist, TV presenter, editor-in-chief magazine "In the World of Science". Since 1973, he has continuously hosted the popular science television program “Obvious - Incredible.” Died - August 14, 2012, Moscow.
Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases - Kapitsa S.P.
- Russia is being turned into a country of fools.
- Before you act, you need to understand.
- Life is guided not by logic, but by emotions.
- Television is engaged in the decomposition of people's consciousness.
- The lack of competent management hurts science.
- Misunderstanding of certain things does not mean the existence of God.
- Leading means not stopping good people from working.
- Culture must be inculcated! Even by force. Otherwise, we will all face collapse.
- It is easy to assemble a herd of Rams, but it is difficult to assemble a herd of Cats.
- The Internet will change the contours of intellectual property law.
- 50 years ago there were as many bicycles on the ruble road as there are now cars.
- Mathematics is what the Russians teach the Chinese in American universities.
- Only contradiction stimulates the development of science. It needs to be emphasized, not glossed over.
- What will remain after the current generation? Will their text messages be published for the edification of their descendants?
- Vulgarity can be off-putting in a woman. sometimes it’s what attracts you, so go figure it out.
- Money is not the purpose of the existence of society, but only a means of achieving certain goals.
- What is my main difference with the church? I say that it was the man who invented God, but they say the opposite.
- If you subordinate everything to money, then everything will remain money; it will not turn into either a masterpiece or a discovery.
- History has long been an “adjective science” - it was “applied” to the point of view of this or that ruler.
- Big figures don't let people get close to them. Richter didn’t let him in. Father too. They valued themselves and their time.
- I have everything I need - I have a dacha on Nikolina Gora, an apartment in Moscow, a car and a computer. Nothing more is needed except ideas.
- Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is now in the hands of those who are completely irresponsible about their role in society.
- Some fear that if we lose God, we will lose what remains of our conscience. I don't see any contradictions here. I think you can live according to your conscience and still not believe in God.
- If instead of the billions that are spent on the armed forces, there were millions on education and health care, then there would be no place for terrorism.
- A suit disciplines a man and organizes him internally. Once upon a time, BBC radio announcers read the news in tuxedos and evening dresses, although listeners could not see them.
- Moscow, despite many things that irritate me, is still my city. You need to be able to filter it all out. Every person should have filters against spam.
- We are depriving the poorest segments of the population because they do not have access to the Internet, we are depriving them of information, thereby driving them into even greater poverty. Everyone should have access to the Internet.
- Women used to dress more boringly. Now there is a colossal range: from monstrous bad taste to very decently dressed people. But for some reason you notice the latter much less often than before.
- Attempts to frame the most significant achievements of science as someone else's discoveries are just a way to satisfy the vanity of their authors. In fact, these achievements belong to humanity as a whole.
- If you pretend to be smart in front of people, speak to them in some foreign language - they will not forgive you for this. If you talk to people seriously and they don’t understand, they will forgive you.
- It is not the computer that can bring a person, but the Internet. The remarkable Russian psychologist Alexei Leontiev said in 1965: “excess information leads to impoverishment of the soul.” These words should be written on every website.
- A modern experimental physicist needs about a million a year - for instruments, for the entire infrastructure that supports his research. Yes, this is an expensive pleasure, but a boutique on Gorky Street costs more.
- I knew Akunin when he was still the scientific secretary of our editorial office of the Pushkin Library, which published one hundred volumes of Russian literature. What attracts me to his detective stories is that his detective, as a statesman, has responsibility for the assigned case, for the interests of the country. Responsibility is a concept that has practically disappeared now.
- Nowhere have I seen more hunted men than in America. They are in a terrible state, aggressive feminism is finishing them off. I remember in Boston at the institute, one venerable teacher, a Russian mathematician, was walking along the corridor, and some secretary was carrying printers. He opened the door for her, and she accused him of sexual harassment, although for him it was an instinctive movement: a woman dragging a heavy piece of iron. There was a public scandal, and he had to leave the institute.
