Quotes of Physicist - somelinesforyou

“ It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ”

- George Wald

“ One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ”

- James Watson

“ Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. ”

- Tim Berners Lee

“ A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ”

- Unknown

“ The electric field in this picture from discrete Faraday lines of force, which are to be treated as physical things, like strings. ”

- Paul Dirac

“ We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. ”

- David Russell

“ Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. ”

- Conor Cruise O’Brien

“ A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ”

- George Wald

“ Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. ”

- Joseph Wood Krutch

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

- Charles Fort

“ We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Physicists know what's important, but they don't know what is true. Mathematicians know what's true, but they don't know what is important. ”

- Unknown

“ No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ”

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? ”

- Richard Feynman

“ Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ”

- Eugene Wigner

“ One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ”

- James D. Watson

“ Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua. ”

- Marshall McLuhan
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