Physics Quotes

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.