Physicist Quotes

If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.

Michio Kaku

American activist

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Kip Thorne

American theoretical physicist

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.

Francois Englert

Belgian theoretical physicist

Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.

Carlo Rubbia

Senator of the Italian Republic

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

Freeman Dyson

British-American theoretical physicist

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

Ivar Giaever

Norwegian-American engineer

One of the main successes of string theory is that it has been able to unify the general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, and quantum mechanics.

Ashoke Sen

Indian theoretical physicist

To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.

Gregory Benford

American author

I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.

Hiroshi Amano

Japanese physicist

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

Martin Lewis Perl

American engineer

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Albert Einstein

Theoretical physicist

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

Brian Greene

American theoretical physicist

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

German physicist

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

Neil Turok

Physicist

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Richard P. Feynman

American theoretical physicist

In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.

Carlo Rubbia

Senator of the Italian Republic

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Richard P. Feynman

American theoretical physicist

We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

Gregory Benford

American author

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

Fabiola Gianotti

Director general of CERN

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

Gregory Benford

American author

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