American Theoretical Physicist

Famous quotes containing the words american, theoretical and/or physicist:

    “Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
    —Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)

    “There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”
    —George Wald (b. 1906)