Great Physicist Quotes

#1. A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.

Ernst Junger

#2. I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.

Sonia Manzano

#3. I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."

Tohoru Masamune

#4. As the great physicist Max Planck put it, scientists must have a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by an artistically creative imagination.

Robert Greene

#5. I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.

Linus Pauling

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

Edward Abbey

#7. I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894 ... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Marie Curie

#8. The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

Stanislaw Ulam

#9. If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

Johannes Stark

#10. The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

Charles Hard Townes

#11. The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be: "All things are made of atoms.

Bill Bryson