Physicist Quotes

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

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

I am a particle physicist, which is the nearest branch to nuclear physics. So in that sense I was the sort of right connection with the subject of nuclear energy and so on.

A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.

The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

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

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false, ” the best thing he could say is that it was “interesting.