Physicist Quotes

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Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore… — Carl Linnaeus
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science… — Kenneth E. Boulding
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to… — Michio Kaku
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. — Heinz Pagels
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so… — Paul Dirac
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the… — Linus Pauling
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense… — Luis Walter Alvarez
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two… — Louis Pasteur
Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet… — Michio Kaku
If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same. — Arnold Sommerfeld
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of… — Fritjof Capra
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply… — Richard Dawkins
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we… — Richard Dawkins
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or… — Eckhart Tolle
On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow… — Simon Conway Morris
The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon landings, the ultimate… — Steven Rose
I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on… — Edward Victor Appleton

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