Physics answers the question, 'What is the nature of the universe?' Geology answers the question, 'What'd I just trip over?'
Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory, Season 11 Episode 7Comment
Physics is the attempt of humanity to understand the world. However it is a real good attempt.
UnknownComment
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
ScienceStephen HawkingComment
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Robert OppenheimerComment