Physicist Quotes

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Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the… — Walther Bothe
The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been… — Irving Adler
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural… — J. H. Hexter
Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between… — Paul Davies
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this… — Franz Karl Achard
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. — J. Willard Gibbs
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Clifford Shull
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. — Pierre Duhem
At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the… — Charles Hard Townes
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this… — Christopher Isham
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us… — Corinne Heline
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle:… — Albert Einstein
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for… — Richard P. Feynman
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in… — Richard Saul Wurman
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.… — Albert Einstein

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