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
What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I am open to [the notion of theistic revelation], but not enthusiastic about potential revelation from God. On the positive side, for… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
“Physicists are notoriously scornful of scientists from other fields. When the great Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s wife left him for a chemist,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible . — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.” — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist. — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image