Accounts Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite…

— Leonard Susskind

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

— Jeff Bezos

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

“I now view theoretical physicists the same way I view politicians. If their lips are moving, they’re lying. If their lips aren’t moving, they’re…

— Terence Thirteen

I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists,…

— Richard Lewontin

“Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good…

— Walter Isaacson

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

— Simone Weil

When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't…

— Michael Flanders