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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

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

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

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

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

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

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.


Hermann von Helmholtz


#appeared #constant #earlier #forms #heat

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.


Alfred Kastler


#atom #close #considerable #extent #intense

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






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