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My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.
— George Akerlof
There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.
— Rex Stout
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
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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— Lee Strobel
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
I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.
— Sonia Manzano
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
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
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
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
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
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
