Quotes About Physicist

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

Lass, it still seems impossible. To alter a universe's whole operating system just by sayin' you want to—" "But Mt'gm'ry, there was at least one person I know of on your planet who used to do such things rather routinely. He codified one of the basic rules for the art: 'Ask, and it shall be given unto you.' An inspired creative physicist, way ahead of his time.

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.

Nierenberg was a man of strong will and even stronger opinions—a good talker but not always a good listener. Some colleagues said that the old adage about famous physicists definitely applied to him: he was sometimes in error but never in doubt. And he was fiercely competitive, often debating until his adversaries simply gave up.

Within a week of Hahn's discovery, American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer sketched a crude bomb on his blackboard.