Physicists Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. — Arthur C. Clarke
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
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

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