Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
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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.
I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.
It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says—we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.
A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed instantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.
Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focu...
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?
When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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.
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.
