Ivar Giaever Quotes

I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

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

Physics is not a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.