#physicist

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#calculus #came #degree #first #flunked

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#disagree #everything #many #physicists #somewhere

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

#already #atom #begun #conclusions #deal

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not. ↗

— Edward Teller

#physicists #physics #simple

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. ↗

— Brian Greene

#bend #classical #classical composers #composers #like

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

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

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