Physicists Quotes · Page 2

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

— Brian Greene

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

— John Cameron

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

— Anton Zeilinger

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

— Robin Ince

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of…

— John Stewart Bell

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

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to…

— Fabiola Gianotti

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity…

— Leonard Mlodinow

I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at 'The Big Bang Theory.' I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they…

— Michio Kaku

“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

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together.…

— Leonard Shlain

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

...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

Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many…

— Fritjof Capra

Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building…

— Fritjof Capra

“The metaphorical or pantheistic God of the physicists is light years away from the interventionist, miracle-wreaking, thought-reading, sin-punishing, prayer-answering God of the…

— Richard Dawkins

In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both…

— Paul Davies

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

I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I…

— Margaret Wertheim

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

— Lisa Randall

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

— Max Delbruck

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

— James Gleick

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the…

— Alain Aspect

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

— Rudolf Ladenburg

Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.

— Ken Goldberg

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

— Bill Mollison

“If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed instantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.”

— Dan Brown

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

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

— Arthur C. Clarke

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence

— Enrico Fermi

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the…

— Henri Poincare

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

— Richard Dawkins

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

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

— Stanislaw Ulam