We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far…

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Robin Ince

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

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