Physicist Quotes

256 quotes by 180 authors

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place… — Richard P. Feynman
Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms. — Bill Bryson
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent… — Terry Pratchett
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorseâ€”and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the… — Daniel Dennett
The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate… — Jeff Lindsay
But, as Einstein once said, â€œFor we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.â€5 — Brian Greene
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found… — Robert Frost
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through… — Donald Miller
It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass… — Graham Hancock
Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. — Dean Koontz
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. — Michio Kaku
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they… — Douglas Adams
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. — Brian Greene
What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they… — William S. Burroughs
Cal â€™s eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. â€œMy God! Sheâ€™s on her way to becoming… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a… — George Johnson

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