Differences Quote by Eric Hobsbawm

Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be…

— Vandana Shiva

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder…

— Terry Pratchett

Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she…

— Lev Artsimovich

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is…

— Leonard Shlain

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to…

— Richard Dawkins

The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods…

— Wolfgang Ostwald

By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they,…

— Edward Teller

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi