Noun
One versed in physics.
A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.
Source: Webster's dictionaryChemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. Frederick Soddy
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. Marie-Louise von Franz
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. Niels Bohr
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. George Stigler
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me. Albert Einstein
The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. Albert Einstein