Physicist Quotes
256 quotes by 180 authors
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Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
— Harold Lewis
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Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep…
— Dean Rusk
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The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between…
— Fritjof Capra
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The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it…
— Michio Kaku
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No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of…
— William S. Burroughs
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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
— Albert Einstein
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I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home,…
— Diane Sawyer
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I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the…
— Will Smith
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The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?
— Edward Abbey
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I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore…
— Linus Pauling
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The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet…
— David C. Cassidy
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Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig…
— George Iles
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When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith…
— Tony Rothman
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Bohm's interpretation of quantum physics indicated that at the subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operated, location ceased to exist. All points…
— Chuck Missler
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as…
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ...…
— Norman Pirie
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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an…
— George Wald
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There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
— Rudolf Ladenburg
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Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
— David Hilbert
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I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been…
— Steven Weinberg
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