Physicist Quotes

Physicist Quote of the day

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.

The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

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

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.