--- title: "3 William Daniel Phillips Quotes - Famous Physicist" description: "William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b156/author-william-daniel-phillips-76755.jpg" --- ![Portrait of William Daniel Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b156/author-william-daniel-phillips-76755.jpg) # William Daniel Phillips (1948) Physicist **3** quotes in **36** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet William Daniel Phillips is a physicist. ## Quick Facts About William Daniel Phillips Born November 5, 1948 Profession Physicist ## About William Daniel Phillips William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. ## Quotes by William Daniel Phillips > [Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-daniel-phillips/being-an-ordinary-scientist-and-an-ordinary-christian-seems-perfectly/) [William Daniel Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-daniel-phillips/) [Atheism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atheism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/william-daniel-phillips-76755_atheism_being-an-ordinary-scientist-and-an-ordin_431275.png) > [I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-daniel-phillips/i-believe-in-god-because-of-a-personal-faith-a-faith-that-is/) [William Daniel Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-daniel-phillips/) [Atheism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atheism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fd/william-daniel-phillips-76755_atheism_i-believe-in-god-because-of-a-personal-f_652997.png) > [I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-daniel-phillips/i-believe-in-god-in-fact-i-believe-in-a-personal-god-who-acts-in-and/) [William Daniel Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-daniel-phillips/) [Atheism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atheism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbb/william-daniel-phillips-76755_atheism_i-believe-in-god-in-fact-i-believe-in-a_2777039.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-daniel-phillips/#itemlist", "name": "William Daniel Phillips Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. 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