Physicist Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The physicists are getting down to the nitty-gritty, they've really just about pared things down to the ultimate details, and the last thing they ever expected to happen is happening. God is showing through.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

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

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

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

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.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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