I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession.
I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.
The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?
There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.
The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible. ' That's dangerous.
Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.
The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
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.
Physics is much too hard for physicists.
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.