Physicists Quotes

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After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and… — Tad Williams
Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms. — Bill Bryson
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent… — Terry Pratchett
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorseâ€”and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the… — Daniel Dennett
But, as Einstein once said, â€œFor we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.â€5 — Brian Greene
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found… — Robert Frost
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through… — Donald Miller
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. — Michio Kaku
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they… — Douglas Adams
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. — Brian Greene
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a… — George Johnson
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent… — Richard Davisson
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them,… — Francis Crick
I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try… — Edward Witten
I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there.… — Cynthia Breazeal
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. — Robin Ince
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male. — Margaret Wertheim
Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove… — Michio Kaku
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there… — David Christian

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