“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”

“A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.”

“Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.”

“Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story.”

“If we were to name the most powerful assumption of all, which leads one on and on in an attempt to understand life, it is that all things are made of atoms, and that everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms.”

“Almost every cost estimate made by a physicist is wildly wrong, and the better the physicist the worse it is (Herb York).”