Physicist Quotes

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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. — Joan Baez
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. — Jeff Bezos
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr
I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created… — Jimmy Carter
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own… — William J. Clinton
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 writing code. No,… — Clifford Stoll
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it… — Wernher von Braun
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Fritjof Capra
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it… — Victor J. Stenger
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in… — Martin Rees
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was… — Steven Weinberg
There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the… — Steven Weinberg
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of… — Paul Dirac
A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?'… — Niels Bohr
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with… — Arthur Eddington
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but… — Henri Poincare
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams

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