Physicist Quotes

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The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday,… — Norbert Wiener
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the… — Fritjof Capra
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth… — Fritjof Capra
Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather… — Fritjof Capra
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty.… — Paul Dirac
When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence — Enrico Fermi
Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party… — Alan Grayson
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of… — W G Sebald
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with… — Charles Hermite
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world,… — Hilary Putnam
In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to… — Jacque Fresco
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves… — James Trefil
Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of… — Michael Faraday
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper,… — Isaac Asimov
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and… — Freeman Dyson
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical… — Bertrand Russell
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere. — Abdolkarim Soroush

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