[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of…

“And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and…

— H.G. Wells

I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by…

— Konrad Lorenz

“She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.”

— Joseph Conrad

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at…

— Abraham Pais

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present,…

— Abraham Pais

Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use…

— Wernher von Braun

We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all -…

— Jerome Frank

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

— David Gross

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is,

— Lisa Randall

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

— Tim Berners-Lee

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

— Arthur Eddington

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman