#physicist

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#long #nature #old #physical #physicist

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties. ↗

— John Cameron

#cooperation #devote #doctors #duties #few

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958. ↗

— John Cameron

#more #now #number #over #physicists

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#crude #extinguish #humor #knowledge #known

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered. ↗

— David Chalmers

#around #discovered #fundamental #had #i

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job. ↗

— John Cameron

#growth #into #job #medical #medical physics

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. ↗

— John Cameron

#been #i #i am #medical #more

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cat #energy #even #ever #had

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