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#physicist

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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.


Richard Dawkins


#big #big bang #day #may #one day

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.


George Wald


#atom #atoms #knowing #physicist #way

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.


John Cameron


#desired #dose #given #making #medical

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.


Jimmy Carter


#adhere #am #any #before #christ

In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, “I see you’re an astrophysicist. What’s that?” I answer, “Astrophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe—the Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing.” Then he asks, “What do you teach at Princeton?” and I say, “I teach a class on the evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.” Five minutes later, I’m on the street. A few years later, jury duty again. The judge states that the defendant is charged with possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine. It was found on his body, he was arrested, and he is now on trial. This time, after the Q&A is over, the judge asks us whether there are any questions we’d like to ask the court, and I say, “Yes, Your Honor. Why did you say he was in possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine? That equals 1.7 grams. The ‘thousand’ cancels with the ‘milli-’ and you get 1.7 grams, which is less than the weight of a dime.” Again I’m out on the street.


Neil deGrasse Tyson


#astrophysics #eyewitness #jury-duty #science #universe

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.


Clifford Geertz


#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.


Alfred Kastler


#atom #close #considerable #extent #intense

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.


Eugene Wigner


#long #nature #old #physical #physicist

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.


Murray Gell-Mann


#figures #greatest #here #honors #humble

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.


J. Robert Oppenheimer


#crude #extinguish #humor #knowledge #known






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