Math Professor Quotes
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“Most of our attempts are failures. Like artists.” — Quantum Mechanics Professor -
“You didn’t do your homework over break? Guess who didn’t grade your shit over break either!” — Quantum Mechanics professor -
“Because we cannot get a solution, we will do the next best thing: wild approximations with no justification whatsoever.” — Quantum Physics professor, beginning a unit on multi-particle systems -
“Why do we make so many assumptions? Because physicists are lazy!” — Quantum mechanics professor -
“Let’s do this mathematically, I’ve waved my hands quite enough.” — Quantum Physics lecturer -
“After that I guess they ran out of imagination, because it now continues alphabetically (g, h, I, but skip j – just to be utterly perverse, k, l, etc.)” — Griffith, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Chapter 5.2 -
“We should start using wingdings instead of Greek letters.” — Quantum mechanics professor -
“I went to the gym and couldn’t even pick up a bar without weights on it. Then I realized that’s what your brains must feel like right now.” — Quantum Mechanics Professor -
“Don’t ask why, just accept this.” — Quantum mechanics professor -
“What I like to do is show you something that makes sense, and then show you something that doesn’t make any sense, because that’s the way that science works.” — Quantum Mechanics Professor