[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen. — David Gross Copy Share Image
The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“As the physicist John Wheeler said, “If you don’t kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Copy Share Image
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
What of course I would like to be writing is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the… — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. A rock looks solid… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction. — Sidney Coleman Copy Share Image
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any… — Lev Artsimovich Copy Share Image
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without… — John Cameron Copy Share Image
How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image