When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.
Charles Hard TownesI strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.
Charles Hard TownesThe late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'
Charles Hard TownesMuch public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
Charles Hard Townes