Physics Quotes

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Physics Works, and I'm still alive!

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

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.

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

Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

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

Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.