Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist. He said that media had a responsibility,… — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla:… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image