Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists…

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

“There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is…

— 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

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

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 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

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