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Physicist Quotes

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

"Analogies between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and His Los Alamos Collaborators". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 1990.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

"Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

Leonard Shlain (1991). “Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light”, William Morrow & Company

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

"Fictional character: Narrator". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

"Lisa Randall Brings Theoretical Physics To The Masses" by Dina Spector, www.businessinsider.com. March 3, 2013.

Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

"Pope's astronomer says he would baptise an alien if it asked him" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.

Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books