Physicist Quotes · Page 3

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

— John Cameron

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

— Robin Ince

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

— Elizabeth Moon

Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.

— Kurt Gödel

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

— Heinz Pagels

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

— Heinrich Hertz

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

— James Gleick

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the…

— Arnold Sommerfeld

“That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average…

— Bradley Sands

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate…

— Hermann Minkowski

When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to…

— John Polkinghorne

My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and…

— Norman Pirie

I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business…

— Leonard Susskind

The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also…

— Max Planck

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or…

— Steven Weinberg

“From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science…

— David Gross

The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist;…

— Franz Karl Achard

I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into…

— Linus Pauling

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about…

— Jimmy Carter

Faith should be pulled into the public arena when it affects how we live. If it doesn't, it does no earthly good.…

— Jeremiah Wright

Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of…

— Adam Frank

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is…

— Arthur Eddington

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable…

— Peter Galison

During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were…

— Linus Pauling

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth

— Jagadish Chandra Bose

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

— Steven Weinberg

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

— Michio Kaku

The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.

— Albert Einstein

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

— Paul Davies

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is,

— Lisa Randall

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

— Ernest Rutherford

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

— Anonymous

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

— Albert Einstein

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi