Physicist Quotes

256 quotes by 180 authors

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not. — Edward Teller
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge… — George Stigler
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate… — Johannes Stark
I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good… — Timothy Simons
Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I… — John von Neumann
I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of… — Robert Lanza
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and… — Arthur Compton
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to… — Abraham Pais
Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in… — Marshall McLuhan
I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying… — Elizabeth Warren
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory."… — Michio Kaku
Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed… — William J. Clinton
If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist. — Peter Debye
The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. — Richard Dawkins
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though… — Albert Einstein
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he… — Hermann von Helmholtz
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton… — David Chalmers
The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he… — Mickey Hart
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule… — Arthur Eddington

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