Physics Quotes

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

Physics is now saying we might be living in one of an infinite number of parallel universes. We can learn practical and creative things to do with the information.

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

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

The laws of physics are not about to change. Set your agenda by what’s happening in the atmosphere, not by what is happening in the artificial world of Kyoto.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

Physics has the cutest words.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology

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

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

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

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

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

The day I went into physics class it was death.

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

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field.

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

God does not play dice with the universe.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them

If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.

Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

As relates to life on Earth, the fine structure constant determines how solar radiation is absorbed in our atmosphere, and it also applies to how photosynthesis works in plants.

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hi