The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
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Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
“This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study… — Walter M. Elsasser Copy Share Image
“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655) I'm the impulse before the language, I'm the reason before the science, I'm the pulse before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic… — Chris de Freitas Copy Share Image
“All right, the universe is energy. All of it. Everything is energy that can be altered simply by willing it to be… — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology.… — David Gross Copy Share Image
“And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much… — Jean Fresnel Copy Share Image
I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of astronomy magazines, and go to a lot of astronomy sites, and physics sites. I love reading about… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
“I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
It's good to remember often, every day, that you are not a physical creature in a physical universe; but a non-physical consciousness… — Bentinho Copy Share Image
“What those two young physicists did remains the most important step yet made in the search for quantum gravity. They gave us… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe,… — William B. Bonnor Copy Share Image
If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
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“the new theory of matter has entirely over thrown the old conception of the unchanging atoms, and they are now regarded to… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
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