All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
[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
But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain. — Albert Einstein 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
We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our… — Leo Kadanoff Copy Share Image
While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together.… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside… — Charles Hermite 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
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
“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
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
“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
You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals… — G.H. Hardy 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
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
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image