Theoretical physics Quotes

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

The pace of science forces the pace of technique.

Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

That's what doing theoretical physics is like: there are a lot of wipeouts.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress.

They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

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.