Originál: (en) There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
Zdroj: [Greenberg, Daniel S., The Politics of Pure Science, University of Chicago Press, 1999, 43, anglicky]
Luis Walter Alvarez citáty a výroky
Originál: (en) I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
Zdroj: Luis W. Alvarez, Nobel Physicist Who Explored Atom, Dies at 77 http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/02/obituaries/luis-w-alvarez-nobel-physicist-who-explored-atom-dies-at-77.html