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If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

— Anonymous

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

— Werner Heisenberg

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and…

— Bertrand Russell

Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated.

— Anne Roe

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of…

— Niels Bohr

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

— Aristotle

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“They, however, never occur in practice, only in the mind of the physicist.”

— Manjit Kumar

“...in microphysics the observer interferes with the experiment in a way that can't be measured and that therefore can't be eliminated. No natural laws…

— M.-L. von Franz

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full…

— Fritjof Capra

“Words are subject to interpretation, energy isn't....”

— Lenita Vangellis

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything…

— Murray Gell-Mann