Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say…

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

It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least…

— Barry Barish

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

— Brian Greene

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on…

— Anonymous

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the…

— Richard P. Feynman

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use…

— Richard P. Feynman

There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment,…

— Richard P. Feynman

“If you say, ’If those conditions are fulfilled then I will be blissful’, then these conditions are never going to be fulfilled. And, secondly,…

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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

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

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

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

— Tim Berners-Lee