Avant garde Quote by Brian Greene

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

— Richard P. Feynman

Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she…

— Lev Artsimovich

It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least…

— Barry Barish

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

— Abraham Flexner

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him,…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on…

— Anonymous

Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very…

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature.…

— Gian-Carlo Rota