Theoretical Physicist Quotes

#1. 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

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

Albert Einstein

#3. Mysteries like these repeating cycles make it very interesting to be a theoretical physicist: Nature gives us such wonderful puzzles! Why does She repeat the electron at 206 times and 3,640 times its mass?

Richard Feynman

#4. Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Richard P. Feynman

#5. My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.

Josh Pais

#6. To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

Michio Kaku

#7. 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

#8. When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

James Rothman

#9. I'm convinced that Theoretical Physicist is just another way of saying BS Artist.

J.C. Cassels

#10. As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

Murray Gell-Mann

#11. The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

Sidney Coleman

#12. Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

Stephen Hawking

#13. The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

John Archibald Wheeler

#14. Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

David Gross

#15. I realised that a lot of women felt the same way I did - they didn't want to wear heavy make-up, but, for whatever reason, there were elements in their skin they want to smooth out or cover.

Louise Nurding

#16. When we were entirely alone in this lush green world, Morgan pulled me gently to him, tipped up my chin and kissed me on the lips. He kissed me, he kissed me, he kissed me . . .

Jacqueline Wilson

#17. You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.

Arnold Palmer

#18. There's a lot of people around Alaska now who are actually running the place who claim to just have gone there for the summer once 30 years ago. And that seems to be what happens.

Tom Bodett

#19. Never enough time. It's never enough time. Was there enough time?

J. Michael Straczynski

#20. I love playing the guitar.

Chang Chen-yue

#21. The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. I can live without love. And with that she left Westley alone.

William Goldman

#23. Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.

Ali Akbar Khan

#24. In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.

Crispin Glover

#25. There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

Francis Schaeffer

#26. A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

Brit Marling

#27. Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.

Marty Rubin

#28. I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Hugh Jackman

#29. I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

Bob Dylan