Best 538 quotes in «physics quotes» category

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.

The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

There are no accidents or coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity - because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In this very radical sense, quantum physics supports the doctrine that the whole is more than the combination of its parts.

The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with Nazi Germany and good evidence that the Germans were more advanced in nuclear physics, and we had to get the bomb first. But then there was the use of that dreadful weapon, or instrument of genocide, and many of the more sensitive scientists turned quickly into anti - nuclear people - and very effective ones.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots or something like that. There are no physicists in mainstream 'Physics.' From Newton to Einstein to Hawking, they are all just mathematicians as far as Science and Physics are concerned.

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.