Physicist Quotes · Page 4

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian…

— Pierre Duhem

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but…

— Isaac Asimov

The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then…

— Michio Kaku

If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely…

— Albert Einstein

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

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review…

— Abraham Pais

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and…

— Max Planck

Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting…

— Brian Ellis

Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best…

— Michael Kosser

“It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by…

— Douglas Adams

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

— Sidney Coleman

Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists.…

— Clifford A. Pickover

I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen…

— Nikita Khrushchev

Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many…

— Fritjof Capra

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical…

— Fritjof Capra

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

— Roger Penrose

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

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

— George Wald

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

Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.

— Ken Goldberg

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

But even technical work filled with formulas can be valuable and important. Einstein offered a lot of technical work on quantum physics,…

— Wayne Dyer

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was…

— Edward Snowden