Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of… — Alan Grayson Copy Share Image
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application. — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. — Heinz Pagels 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
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
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business… — Leonard Susskind 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
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
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were… — Linus Pauling 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
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near… — Josh Pais Copy Share Image
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image