Abstract Quote by Scott Adams

The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.”

— John Twelve Hawks

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have…

— Steven Weinberg

A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations…

— Paul Dirac

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

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share…

— Edsger Dijkstra