Physics Quotes

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.

Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), and that was in high school.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.