A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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.
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.
One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.