Physics Quotes

Both [Quine and Feyerabend] want to revise a version of positivism. Quine started with the Vienna Ci...

At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself u...

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of...

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Three quarks for Muster Mark!

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turn...

If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear b...

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their ...

But some numbers, called dimensionless numbers, have the same numerical value no matter what units o...

Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combinati...

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of...

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can hap...

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this h...

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be ...

A physicist, an engineer and a psychologist are called in as consultants to a dairy farm whose produ...

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to...

One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most...

I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to expl...

There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it...

Despite my resistance to hyperbole, the LHC belongs to a world that can only be described with super...

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then ph...

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer...

Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dyn...

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archet...

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral fo...

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes th...

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...

Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our...

Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our...

The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but phys...

If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history wou...

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of spa...

[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.]Sometime...

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been s...

It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory...

Maybe somewhere telepaths walked the Earth, but I wasn't one of them. In the process, I began to rea...

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant the...

There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they w...

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is a...

In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave ...

A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same heigh...

While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic trut...

Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon?...

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter,...

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge...

The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the cl...

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it ...

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

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But...

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

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...