Physicist Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm really fascinated by the parallels between quantum theory and the teachings of some of these ancient texts. So many of the things that quantum physicists are talking about today, like non-locality and the observer effect, are things the yogis have been saying for thousands of years.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Teaching, Talking, Years

  "Beryl Bender Birch: Abhyasa and Avoiding Flying Tomatoes". Interview with Andrea Marcum, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Cowboy, Technology, Government

  7 Copy quote

• You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

  Len Evans

  Funny, Science, Technology

  4 Copy quote

• Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Together, Add

  13 Copy quote

• I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, War, Hydrogen Bomb

  Address to the United Nations, New York City, on September 18, 1959. The New York Times, p. 8, September 19, 1959.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Charles Fort

  World, Cards, Parlor Games

  Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Werner Heisenberg

  Plain Language, Understanding, Degrees

  Werner Heisenberg (1962). “Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science”, Harpercollins College Div

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean

  9 Copy quote

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

  Taner Edis

  Religion, Able, Mechanic

  4 Copy quote

• Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.

  Taner Edis

  Writing, Heart, Reality

  4 Copy quote

• By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.It is a statement of faith.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Facts, Theory

  Edward Teller (1981). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.

  Hugh Everett III

  Smart, Men, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, which portrays Tesla as intensely human. . . . Anyone, whether simply an interested reader or a professional historian, engineer, or physicist, will finish Tesla with a deepened understanding of his world, character, and accomplishments.

  Robert Rosenberg

  Character, Accomplishment, Understanding

  4 Copy quote

• The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

  Max Planck

  Science, Firsts, Belief

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  Spring, People, Water

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.29, Arcade Publishing

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has to distinguish two subvarieties. Type 2a physicists explain why they are not bothered. Their explanations tend either to miss the point entirely (like Born's to Einstein) or to contain physical assertions that can be shown to be false. Type 2b are not bothered and refuse to explain why.

  David Mermin

  Science, Two, Missing

  5 Copy quote

• You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Perfect

  4 Copy quote

• The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Beautiful, Party

  "Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence". Book by Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw, Preface, 1931.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Luck, Gold

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.

  Jerome Frank

  Men, Intelligence, Promise

  6 Copy quote

• I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.

  Bo Burnham

  Philosophy, School, Math

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 20, 2013.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist. He said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and move things forward. And that fascinated me... I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life...

  Jeremy Gilley

  Moving, Book, Responsibility

  "On September 21, call a global truce" by Jeremy Gilley, www.cnn.com. January 15, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots or something like that. There are no physicists in mainstream 'Physics.' From Newton to Einstein to Hawking, they are all just mathematicians as far as Science and Physics are concerned.

  Bill Gaede

  Want, Idiot, Physics

  4 Copy quote