Attitude Quote by Gordon Gould

When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics…

— Max Planck

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

— Aristotle

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

— Albert Einstein

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

— Edward Teller

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

— David Hilbert

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

— Bertrand Russell

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

— Albert Einstein

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

— Rene Descartes

The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad…

— Abraham Pais

I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so we all…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

— Ernst Mach