CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of…

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to…

— Leonard Mlodinow

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But…

— David Christian

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas,…

— Fabiola Gianotti

From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we…

— Fabiola Gianotti

Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very…

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Lisa Randall

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Wolfgang Ostwald

By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they,…

— Edward Teller

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

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

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

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative…

— John Cameron

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

— Enrico Fermi

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

— Tim Berners-Lee