Physicist Quotes - Page 14

• 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

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• If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

  Edward Witten

  Trying, Paper, Figures

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• Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to write good songs by writing a lot of not so good ones. Education matters in songwriting, just as it matters for physicists, chemists, doctors, lawyers and MBAs. Education lays the foundataion on which to build experience.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Writing, Doctors

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• 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

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• 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

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• We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our self-interest. Nothing we do is likely to arrest our decline in numbers, support or social value.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Believe, Social Values, Self

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• [Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Science, Opening Your Mind

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• 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.

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• I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

  Dov Davidoff

  Levels, Fighter

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• Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Growing Up, Years, Psychology

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Simple, Order, Wish

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• Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Sound, Oracles, These Days

  "The Dark River". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2007.

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• Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have seen that in economics departments. The same must be true to some extent in other departments.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Simple, Research, Economics

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these subatomic particles, put them in particle accelerators and collide them, quantum physicists discover there's nothing there. There's no one home - no ghost in the machine.

  Wayne Dyer

  Home, Levels, Machines

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Science, Dimensions

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future.

  Clifford A. Pickover

  Moving, Mean, Space

  Clifford A. Pickover (1999). “Time: A Traveler's Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

  William S. Burroughs

  Honesty, Pain, Voice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ken Goldberg

  Perfect, Waiting, Surfing

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• Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Maxwell

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  Bill Gaede

  World, Next, Physics

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• People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Mean, Talking

  "Faith and Reason" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• What of course I would like to be writing is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror, their space rocket (powered by anti-gravity), their attendant entities Hadron, Gluon, Pion, Lepton, and Muon, and the Charmed Quarks and the Coloured Quarks. But we can't all be physicists.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Science, Dwarves

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Sirian Experiments (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 3)”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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