The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use… — Wolfgang Ostwald Copy Share Image
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and… — Richard Davisson Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long,… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I'm doing The Physicists, which is great, and I do have my agent to thank for that because a lot of agents… — Miranda Raison Copy Share Image
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“I went into physics to hang around with the bright kids. I wasn’t doing anything else and I didn’t want to look… — Leon Max Lederman Copy Share Image
No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery,… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without… — Bertrand Russell 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
Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge… — J. H. Hexter Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a… — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the… — Serge King Copy Share Image