The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its…

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going…

— Eve Ensler

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

— Vandana Shiva

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder…

— Terry Pratchett

Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she…

— Lev Artsimovich

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is…

— Leonard Shlain

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

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

— Enrico Fermi

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

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