Fields Quote by Dominic Cummings

“people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious”

— Peter Thiel

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

— David Hilbert

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

— David Hilbert

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

— Brian Greene

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have seen that…

— Robert J. Shiller

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough…

— Stuart J. Russell

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

— Daniel Bernoulli

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

— Stephen Hawking

It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least…

— Barry Barish

Everything is physics and math.

— Katherine Johnson