Physicists Quotes
161 quotes by 115 authors
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
— Jeff Bezos
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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own…
— William J. Clinton
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it…
— Wernher von Braun
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
— Fritjof Capra
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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it…
— Victor J. Stenger
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A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of…
— Paul Dirac
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through…
— Louis Agassiz
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The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and…
— Wolfgang Ostwald
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Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to…
— Michio Kaku
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Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
— Heinz Pagels
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Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so…
— Paul Dirac
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During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the…
— Linus Pauling
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I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet…
— Michio Kaku
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply…
— Richard Dawkins
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Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we…
— Richard Dawkins
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