Walter Lewin Quotes

United States, Astrophysicist
January 29, 1936

Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin is a Dutch astrophysicist and former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lewin earned his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1965 at the Delft University of Technology and was a member of MIT's physics faculty for 43 years beginning in 1966 until his retirement in 2009.

Also known as Professor

I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.

Walter Lewin
- Never
- Same
- Physics
All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

Walter Lewin
- Physics
- Virginity
What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it.

Walter Lewin
- Found
- Students
- Discovery
Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals

Walter Lewin
- Teacher
- Boring
- Criminals