Physicist Quotes

256 quotes by 180 authors

Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the… — Robert Nozick
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very… — George Bernard Shaw
A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys. — Franz Karl Achard
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming.… — Paul Davies
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of… — Rob Brezsny
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may… — Philip J. Davis
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is… — Henri Poincare
The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the… — G. H. Hardy
I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use… — Richard P. Feynman
Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on… — Robert Gibbs
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… — Arthur Eddington
Physics is much too hard for physicists. — David Hilbert
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method… — Paul Dirac
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his… — George Stigler
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon
Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is, — Lisa Randall
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very… — Michael Behe
A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead… — Leon M. Lederman
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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