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There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

Rex Stout
Earth, Tricks, Physicist
Rex Stout (1975). “A Family Affair: A Nero Wolfe Novel”, Viking Adult

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

Michio Kaku
Impossible, Dangerous, Physicist
Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

Kenneth E. Boulding
Economist, Physicist, Sociologists

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Edward Abbey
Nuclear, Bombs, Physicist
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

Dov Davidoff
Levels, Fighter, Physicist

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

Douglas Adams
Party, Said, Physicist
Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

Abraham Pais
Loss, Discovery, Physicist
"Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.

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