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Quotes About Knowledge

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
~ William Osler
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
~ Tom Waits
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.
~ Stephen Hawking
I'd no more listen to a physicist's advice on my fertility than I would let a mechanic cut my hair.
~ Dawn Foster
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.
~ David Chalmers
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
I was brought up as a physicist.
~ Gerhard Herzberg
We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I can look it up.
~ Michio Kaku
Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
~ David Hilbert
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
~ David Russell
Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.
~ Ashoke Sen
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
~ James Rainwater
I need physics more than friends.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
~ Leonard Susskind
I was a very good student. But I didn't have the latitude to study more. I was never allowed to do anything cross-disciplinary. Why can't an engineering student learn physics?
~ Shiv Nadar
We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
~ Yehuda Berg
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human.
~ Wangechi Mutu
I was always good at math and science and physics.
~ Daniel J. Evans
I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
~ Polykarp Kusch
I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.
~ Debi Thomas
There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.
~ Noam Chomsky