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Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

— Leonard Susskind

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

— Bobbie Ann Mason

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

— Edward Teller

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

— Arthur D. Levinson

We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.

— Michio Kaku

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

— John Cameron

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

— Albert Einstein

To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.

— Lene Hau

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

— Brian Greene

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

— Michio Kaku

✗Opposing Perspectives

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

— Niels Bohr