Abstraction Quote by Sidney Coleman

“I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting skill beyond…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and…

— John Stewart Bell

In subjects that physicists think of as purely quantum, classical ideas and classical computational techniques can often be powerful.

— Kip Thorne

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

— Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too…

— Eugene Wigner

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

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Stephen Hawking

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

— David Gross

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

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

— will.i.am

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

— Richard P. Feynman

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the…

— Celia Green