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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
--Richard Feynman 
Psychologists think they're experimental psychologists.
Experimental psychologists think they're biologists.
Biologists think they're biochemists.
Biochemists think they're chemists.
Chemists think they're physical chemists.
Physical chemists think they're physicists.
Physicists think they're theoretical physicists.
Theoretical physicists think they're mathematicians.
Mathematicians think they're metamathematicians.
Metamathematicians think they're philosophers.
Philosophers think they're gods.
--Anonymous
If it smells it's chemistry, if it crawls it's biology, if it doesn't work it's physics.
--Anonymous
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
--H. L. Mencken
People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between Nazidom and democracy. But the antagonism is here now. It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength.
--Winston Churchill
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
--Mark Twain
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained.
--Charles Darwin
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
--Mike Adams
If it's green or wiggles, it's biology.
If it stinks, it's chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's physics.
And if it doesn't make sense, it's math.
--Anonymous
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
--George Polyá
BARIUM: what you do with dead chemists.
--Anonymous
If, in physics, one seeks to explain the nature of light, nobody expects that as a result there will be no light. But in the case of psychology everybody believes that what it explains is explained away.
--Carl Gustav Jung
Chemistry professors never die, they just fail to react.
--Anonymous
...in physics the only observations we must consider are position observations, if only the positions of instrument pointers. It is a great merit of the de Broglie-Bohm picture to force us to consider this fact. If you make axioms, rather than definitions and theorems, about the "measurement" of anything else, then you commit redundancy and risk inconsistency.
--J. S. Bell
If that turns out to be true, I'll quit physics.
--Max von Laue
Chemistry is applied theology.
--Augustus Stanley Owsley III
"The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant biology."
--Anonymous
Invest in physics -- own a piece of Dirac!
--Anonymous
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
--Ernest Rutherford
The purpose of Physics 7A is to make the engineers realize that they're not perfect, and to make the rest of the people realize that they're not engineers.
--Anonymous
Physics is much too hard for physicists.
--David Hilbert
To mathematicians, solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists, solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
--Anonymous
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.
--Philip J. and Hersh Davis
James McNeill Whistler's (painter of "Whistler's Mother")
failure in his West Point chemistry examination once provoked him to
remark in later life, "If silicon had been a gas, I should have been a
major general."
--Anonymous
...it would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
--Daniel Bernoulli
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.
--W.K. Hartmann
The one and only immediate guarantor of reality is the observer. Significantly enough, the most unpsychological of all sciences, physics, comes up against the observer at the decisive point. This knowledge sets its stamp on our century.
--Carl Gustav Jung
A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.
--John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards -- only physics and war hold him in check. And also the wife who wants him home by five, of course.
--Encyclopadia Apocryphia
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
--Freeman Dyson
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
--Sir Arthur Eddington
In science, `fact' can only mean `confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
--Stephen Jay Gould
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
--David Russell
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
--Bertrand Russell
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.
--Maria Goeppert Mayer
First, a few words about tools.
Basically, a tool is an object that enables you to take advantage of the laws of physics and mechanics in such a way that you can seriously injure yourself. Today, people tend to take tools for granted. If you're ever walking down the street and you notice some people who look particularly smug, the odds are that they are taking tools for granted. If I were you, I'd walk right up and smack them in the face.
--Dave Barry
"Yo, Mike!"
"Yeah, Gabe?"
"We got a problem down on Earth. In Utah."
"I thought you fixed that last century!"
"No, no, not that. Someone's found a security problem in the physics
program. They're getting energy out of nowhere."
"Blessit! Lemme look...
there all right! OK, just a sec...
There, that ought to patch it. Dist it out, wouldja?"
--Cold Fusion
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth are essentially physical problems, and the morphologist is, ipso facto, a student of physical science.
--D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.
--Sir Arthur Eddington