Physicist Quotes

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Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists. — David Finkelstein
Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge physicists offer speculation… — Jim Marrs
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each… — Edsger Dijkstra
Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science. — Kurt GÃ¶del
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to… — Eugene Wigner
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the… — Freeman Dyson
In Paris, friend of Bequerelâ€™s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,… — Huston Smith
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow… — Arthur Eddington
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob… — Douglas Adams
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual… — David Ruelle
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no… — Percy Williams Bridgman
A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to… — Peter Galison
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a… — Barbara Brennan
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the… — Leonard Shlain
While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the… — Leonard Shlain
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. — Philip Emeagwali
A mathematician is anï»¿ individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede

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