There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments,… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
“Whatever you desire, it comes from the universe, and whatever you manifest, be it situations, the right partner, friend, or spouse, the… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Part of what's mesmerizing about 'The Mechanics of History' is its physical eloquence - how dancerly it is. The men don't fall;… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A physicist, an engineer and a psychologist are called in as consultants to a dairy farm whose production has been below par.… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life which stops when physical maturity is reached. If growth continues… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The science behind Interstellar is interesting, because some of it is absolutely real astrophysics and orbital mechanics, some of it is theoretical… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
“We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist.… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling," Harry said finally, "that we're coming at this from the wrong angle. There's a tale I once heard… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes said that the greatest remaining scientific questions are: What caused the Big Bang? What is the grand unified theory that… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also… — Moby Copy Share Image
I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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