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My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist. — George Akerlof

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. — Confucius

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

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist. — Peter Debye

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

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

I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.' — Brian Greene

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

(A substantial fraction of the atoms in the body of a typical physicist were once in the form of pizza.) — Sean Carroll

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

I'm convinced that Theoretical Physicist is just another way of saying BS Artist. — J.C. Cassels

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

By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life. — John Ellis

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. — Philip Emeagwali

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

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

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A physicist is the atom's way of knowing about atoms. — George Wald

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all. — Robert Bunsen

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. — Werner Heisenberg

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

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

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. — Will Smith

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

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

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

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

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

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task. — Ernst Junger

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

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. — Albert Einstein

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. — John Cameron

Physics is much too hard for physicists. — David Hilbert

A physicist is one who's concerned with the truth," he later said. "An engineer is one who's concerned with getting the job done. — Walter Isaacson

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

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Atticus:"Damn it, Jim, I'm a Druid not a Physicist! — Kevin Hearne

The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest. — Fulton J. Sheen

Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist. — Victor Frederick Weisskopf

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

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist. — Stephen Hawking

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist. — Francis Collins

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

It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says - we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem. — Rebecca Curtis

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. — Dexter Palmer

Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.
She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?"
"Alive," I say. — John Green

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

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

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

Old physicist joke: they knew that the approach worked in practice, but could they make it work in theory? — Walter Isaacson

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. — Joan Baez

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

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

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen. — David Gross

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. — J.Williard Gibbs

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

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

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

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it. — Carla H. Krueger

The larger the searchlight, the bigger the circumference of the unknown.
-anonymous physicist — Norm Schriever

The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks. — Randall Munroe

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman

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

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

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

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

The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible . — John Archibald Wheeler

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe. — David Bohm

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

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

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. — Michio Kaku

Smashing things up is a time-honoured particle-physicist method of finding out more about them. — Jon Butterworth

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede