Physics Quotes

We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle.

Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.

There are many people who say there's a God somewhere up there but, God is nothing more than a formula. Just a part of some law of physics that we have yet to understand.

A billion neutrinos go swimming in heavy water: one gets wet.

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

how much does a thought weigh?

How much does a beam of light weigh?

This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

The human mind is woven into the energy fabric of the universe.John A. Wheeler

PHYSICS to me.. umm well it's like ENERGY, spreading in all DIMENSION of mind which tends to the TENSION, which FORCES the MOTION to come out.

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell you why an astronaut can go back and forth across that same space.

A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.

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

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.