Physicists Quotes

161 quotes by 115 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Physics is much too hard for physicists. — David Hilbert
Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is, — Lisa Randall
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly… — Richard Holbrooke

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