Physicist Quotes

256 quotes by 180 authors

Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of… — Brian Ellis
Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist,… — Drunvalo Melchizedek
Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and… — Lionel Trilling
... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. — Arthur C. Clarke
A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all. — Robert Bunsen
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction… — Krista Tippett
[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity… — Frank Debenham
When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I… — Margaret Geller
So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that… — Richard Bach
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life,… — Frank J. Tipler
The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought! — Rhonda Byrne
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the… — Henri Poincare
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to… — John Astin
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle… — Antonino Zichichi
We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a… — Alfred Kastler

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