Physics Quotes

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

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

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

Order is heaven's first law.

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.

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

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

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

No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

Physics changes, but reality stays the same

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

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

For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.

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.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

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.

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

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

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

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

We're machines for turning caffeine into physics

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.