#physicist

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. ↗

— Dean Rusk

#asleep #astronomers #being #given #implications

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#better #card #change #credit #credit card

I'm not anti-religion. I'm anti-maniac. ↗

— Brian Cox:

#religion

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#big #big bang #day #may #one day

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. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#foreign #foreign language #gets #language #mathematician

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ↗

— George Wald

#atom #atoms #knowing #physicist #way

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#itself #just #looking #physicist #way

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized. ↗

— John Cameron

#desired #dose #given #making #medical

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#adhere #am #any #before #christ

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#cataclysmic #chemists #conceived #created #environment