Aurel Bulgac

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Office:        Physics and Astronomy Building, B478

                              Professor

                              Fellow of the American Physical Society
                              Nuclear Theory Group
                              Department of Physics
                              University of Washington
                              P.O. Box 351560
                              Seattle, WA 98195-1560, USA

                                     UNEDF-SciDAC
                                      

                                      APS Outstanding Referee

      TALKS

      MEDIA

      COLLABORATORS

                                  RESEARCH -  Quantum Many-Body Nuclear Physics and Related Systems
 
                                  NUMERICAL PROGRAMS

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.   Bertrand Russell

My interest in science is to simply find out about the world. . . . When we go to investigate it,  we shouldn't pre-decide what it is we're trying to do, except to try to find out more about it. . . .  Altogether, I can't believe these special stories that have been made up about our relationship  to the universe at large because they seem to me too simple, too connected, too local, too  provincial. . . . I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more  interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. 

I wouldn't want my doctor thinking that intelligent design was an equally plausible hypothesis to evolution any  more than I would want my airplane pilot believing in the flat Earth. James Langer  

On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague: This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli

When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers,  you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.  Lord Kelvin

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert Heinlein

I'm a strong believer that ignorance is important in science. If you know too much, you start seeing why things won't work. That's why it's important to change your field to collect more ignorance. Sydney Brenner

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the Ark and professionals built the Titanic. Dave Barry

Jones's First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress - in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebook of Lazarus Long

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.    Bertrand Russell