Physicist Quotes

256 quotes by 180 authors

Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly… — Richard Holbrooke
No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing… — Carrie P Snow
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured… — Arthur Eddington
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it… — Max Planck
The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of… — Max Planck
The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science… — Max Planck
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. — Charles Fort
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has… — David Mermin
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where… — Albert Einstein
Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist. — Guy Consolmagno
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave… — George Bernard Shaw
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work… — J.R.R. Tolkien
To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do. — Paul Davies
When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time,"… — Stephen Hawking
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician… — Clifford Geertz
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high… — Brian Greene
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. — Richard Dawkins
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but… — Jacques Derrida
Among physicists, I'm respected I hope. — Stephen Hawking

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