Physicists Quotes · Page 2

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the…

— Henri Poincare

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

— Arthur C. Clarke

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence

— Enrico Fermi

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

— Rudolf Ladenburg

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

— Bill Mollison

Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.

— Ken Goldberg

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

— Lisa Randall

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A…

— George Wald

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in…

— Jonathan Miller

Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated…

— Albert Einstein

The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the…

— Martin Rees

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole…

— Barry Commoner

“Was Mileva simply a sounding board for his brainstorms, as some scientists insisted? Did she only assist him with the complicated mathematical…

— Marie Benedict

“While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally…

— Carl Johan Calleman

The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.…

— Werner Heisenberg

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted…

— Vandana Shiva

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists…

— Richard Dawkins

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,…

— Huston Smith

The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use…

— Wolfgang Ostwald

The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the…

— Alain Aspect

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

— James Gleick

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

— Max Delbruck

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

— Brian Greene

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

— Robin Ince

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

— Anton Zeilinger

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

— John Cameron

“The physicists have their hands on the doorknob. If they paid more attention to their dreams, they would know what questions to…

— Jane Roberts

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ...

— Leon M. Lederman

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

— Taner Edis

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

— Brian Greene

“Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not…

— Walter Isaacson