A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

Werner Heisenberg in Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science
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Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

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Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

quote by Terry Pratchett
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I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

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Calling it a cover-up would be far too dramatic. But for more than half a century — even in the midst of some of the greatest scientific achievements in history — physicists have been quietly aware of a dark cloud looming on a distant horizon.

Brian Greene in The Elegant Universe, Tied Up with String (1999)
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Physics has the cutest words.

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The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

quote by John Cameron
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

quote by Niels Bohr
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Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.

quote by Walther Bothe
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Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

quote by Tim Berners Lee
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The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

quote by Erwin Schrodinger
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It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

quote by Tom Hanks
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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

quote by Elizabeth Moon
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I like physics, but I love cartoons.

quote by Stephen Hawking
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

quote by Joyce Carol Oates
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Poets of The Electron Dream

There is a single factum
for the current century
which has
All Meaning
for Poetry.

The Physicists
have
since the 1920's
told us that electrons
can be in two different places
simultaneously.

The Principle of Uncertainty.

They have finally caught up with
Poets who
have long
argued that
Poetry comes

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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
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There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

quote by John Cameron
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When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

quote by John Cameron
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

quote by Ernest Rutherford
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