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For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one. — Albert Einstein

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. — Richard Feynman

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

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? - RICHARD P. FEYNMAN — James Gleick

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere. — Lisa Randall

Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy. — Steven Weinberg

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

Much of the writing of physicists barely reaches the level of prose. — Steven Weinberg

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web ... Now even my cat has its own page. — William J. Clinton

A mischievous biologist might wonder whether some other physicists are in need of Darwinian consciousness-raising. — Richard Dawkins

But, as Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent."5 — Brian Greene

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians. — Luis Walter Alvarez

In 1956 two American physicists, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, suggested that the weak force does not in fact obey the symmetry P. — Stephen Hawking

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms. — Bill Bryson

Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity. — Max Born

hadrons" - a collective term used by physicists for protons, neutrons and other particles governed by the strong nuclear force. — Bill Bryson

Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait. — Ken Goldberg

Physics is much too hard for physicists. — David Hilbert

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. — Taner Edis

Already physicists are doing the basic calculations necessary to make an MRI machine fit into a cell phone. — Michio Kaku

His contributions touched almost every corner of the subject and have had a deep and abiding influence over the way that physicists think. — Anonymous

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being. — James Gleick

About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941. — Richard Rhodes

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

Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark. — Roberto Bolano

Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism. — Sam Kean

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

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists. — David Hilbert

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. — Tim Berners-Lee

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed
instantly. Physicists call the process 'annihilation. — Dan Brown

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

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. — Rudolf Ladenburg

Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists ... But 'the heart glows,' and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being. — C. G. Jung

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

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks. — Henri Poincare

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. — John Twelve Hawks

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today. — Anton Zeilinger

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

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. — Richard Dawkins

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. — Brian Greene

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958. — John Cameron

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

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know. — Alan Guth

Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. — Arthur C. Clarke

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. — Terry Pratchett

The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought! — Rhonda Byrne

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules ... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene

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

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope. — Stephen Hawking

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill. — Douglas Adams

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. — Jeff Bezos

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. — Heinz Pagels

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

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics. — Bill Gaede

Physicists believe that the Gaussian law has been proved in mathematics while mathematicians think that it was experimentally established in physics. — Henri Poincare

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not. — Edward Teller

Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps. — Hendrik Tennekes

Which had required enough dimensional finagling to make an entire university of theoretical physicists beg for mercy, — Ilona Andrews