Physics Quotes

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

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

To understand hydrogen is to understand all of physics.

Physics is simple, but subtle.

Exercise is the beste intrument in learnyng.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

I need physics more than friends.

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.