Physics Quotes

As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. A...

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

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it '...

I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other aga...

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains un...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the ...

That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself ...

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

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years o...

Consider the enormity of the problem. Science has proved that the universe exploded into being at a ...

There is a strange ring of feeling and emotion in these reactions [of scientists to evidence that th...

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream...

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by ...

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these ...

There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have ...

The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional arr...

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid,...

A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim to be immortal: You would have to wait unt...

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations...

Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that t...

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by t...

Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for...

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

God abhors a naked singularity.

Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—s...

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like th...

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories tha...

Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master u...

To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about eve...

Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamic...

The century of Einstein and Planck was also the century of Hitler. The Gestapo and the scientific re...

Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it ca...

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Practically anything can go faster than Disc light, which is lazy and tame, unlike ordinary light. T...

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the di...

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

But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket, the double integral has a different meaning. To integ...

But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket , the double integral has a different meaning. To inte...

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is...

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head a...

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words eve...

The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by ...

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a c...

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the c...

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs an...

The responsibility of any science, any pure pursuit, is ultimately to itself, and on this point phys...

Light brings us the news of the Universe.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principl...

Wolfgang Pauli, in the months before Heisenberg's paper on matrix mechanics pointed the way to a new...

As I regard physics and psychology as complementary types of examination, I am certain that there is...

... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression i...

The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the ...

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

I introduce the subject of fine structure with a mini-calendar of events. ...Winter 1914-15. Sommerf...

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of t...

It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I th...

Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at ...

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to th...

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cann...

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and ph...

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important...

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, alth...

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

Nothing happens until something moves.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

… there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay...

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

Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is mor...

Order is heaven's first law.

Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became...

The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to ...

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the so...

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

Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth

All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. ...

After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the at...

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics ...

There was a young lady named Bright,Whose speed was far faster than light;She started one dayIn a re...

We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena...

A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is n...

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so...

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

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a ki...

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Obje...

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within...

Life, just like the stars, the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long r...

(On the energy radiated by the Sun)It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is ...

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connect...

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling ...

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

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

We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onwar...

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in a...

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathwa...