Physics Quotes

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Physics has the cutest words.

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

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

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

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

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

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

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

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.