“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.” — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them? — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist. — Sonia Manzano Copy Share Image
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
But even technical work filled with formulas can be valuable and important. Einstein offered a lot of technical work on quantum physics,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical and… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image