Best 538 quotes in «physics quotes» category

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable.

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That's very different from the way time has normally been understood.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

...paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth through fiction. And this idea also comes from nuclear physics.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical.

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Physics is simple, but subtle.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.