Theoretical Physicists Quotes

#1. Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith ... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

Paul Dirac

#2. 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

#3. Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Jeff Bezos

#4. Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.

John Stewart Bell

#5. Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity.

Max Born

#6. Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

Drew Houston

#7. Which had required enough dimensional finagling to make an entire university of theoretical physicists beg for mercy,

Ilona Andrews

#8. [T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view.

Serge King

#9. Pea Eye loped up and unfolded himself in the direction of the ground. "Your getting off a horse reminds me of an old crane landing in a mud puddle," Augustus said.

Larry McMurtry

#10. It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

Peter Drucker

#11. So you can't marry Harry, Mom! Not if you still love Daddy!" I sound like a ten-year-old, but I can't help it. Buttercup comes over to me and puts her head on my lap.
"Love gets used up, Chastity," Mom says gently, reaching up to smooth my hair. "If it's not returned, it gets used up.

Kristan Higgins

#12. He could look out the window and see nothing but deep snow and deep woods, the perfect picture for Christmas.

Susan Wiggs

#13. Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

William Shakespeare

#14. Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig.

Suzanne Collins

#15. No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

Nancy Johnson

#16. I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.

Anne Rice

#17. Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Heinz Pagels