Physicist Quotes - Page 12

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

  Michio Kaku

  Fiction, Scientist, Laboratory

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Harold Lewis

  Successful, Long, Global Warming

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• I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.

  Vandana Shiva

  Hero, Order, Years

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.

  Albert Einstein

  Important, Tools, Theoretical

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• 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

  Heart, Trying, Looks

  "Mr. and Mr. Smith: Will and Jaden Psych Up for After Earth". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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

  Edward Abbey

  Nuclear, Bombs, Humankind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.

  Linus Pauling

  Smart, Theoretical Physics, People

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• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  David C. Cassidy

  Nature, Struggle, Science

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• Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

  George Iles

  Science, Fields, Common

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

  Bill Mollison

  Teaching, Home, Physics

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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

  Rudolf Ladenburg

  Science, Hands, Two

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• Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

  David Hilbert

  Becoming, Physics, Difficult

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• I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beauty, Art, Mean

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• The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday, he is praying... that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.

  Norbert Wiener

  Friday, Monday, Sunday

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• Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.

  Fritjof Capra

  Essence, Shiva, Matter

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• Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.

  Fritjof Capra

  Block, Doe, Attention

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• [on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

  Enrico Fermi

  Winning, Thinking, Common

  Physics Today, October 1994.

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• Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!

  Alan Grayson

  Party, People, Tea

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• Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.

  W. G. Sebald

  Past, Layers, Emotion

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

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Energy, Has Beens, Known

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• Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called inanimate objects - I often pick up little objects and just look at them and sense that they are alive. Physicists actually confirm that what we perceive as dead matter is not dead at all. Everything is an intensely alive energy field. That aliveness is only an aspect of the aliveness or life that I am.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Energy, Filters

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• The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to non-physicists who will not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Philosophy, Plain Language, Understanding

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.

  Lev Artsimovich

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Believe

  Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research,

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• We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.

  Michio Kaku

  Children, Hate, Sound

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• 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

  Lying, Land, Numbers

  "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

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