Physics Quotes

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

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

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

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I? I lets 'em.

From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.

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

Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

You believe in God? Dude. Only God could have created physics.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

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

When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.

But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.

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

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

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

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

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.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!