Famous quotes containing the words american, theoretical and/or physicist:
“Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of 68Ma way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.”
—Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)
“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 atoms way of knowing about atoms.”
—George Wald (b. 1906)
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