Physicists Quotes

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No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing… — Carrie P Snow
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it… — Max Planck
The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of… — Max Planck
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has… — David Mermin
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave… — George Bernard Shaw
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time,"… — Stephen Hawking
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician… — Clifford Geertz
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high… — Brian Greene
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. — Richard Dawkins
Among physicists, I'm respected I hope. — Stephen Hawking
Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. — Tim Berners-Lee
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. — Terry Pratchett
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty… — Erwin Schrodinger
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to… — Frederick Soddy
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences,… — Fritjof Capra
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how… — Terry Pratchett
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? — Richard P. Feynman

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