I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Wheeler wasn’t the first to point out that quantum mechanics slips into paradox the minute you introduce a second observer. The Nobel… — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The weird thing about the arrow of time is that it's not to be found in the underlying laws of physics. It's… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
“It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it… — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
“In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call the ‘physics of the quest’, a force in nature governed by… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The key to the scientist's purpose is the idea that every phenomenon is the product of a certain given set of condition.… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
If a handful of people look at the making of the film and realize, "Oh, my god!" It was so complicated. It… — Rob Letterman Copy Share Image
Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be without its opposite that was bound up with it. Could space exist in a building without objects that stopped… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a… — David Lee Copy Share Image
The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
“I think of the universe as an engine. Perhaps we are a very small, yet very important part of this engine. What… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“indicate that the same fundamental principles, from which the laws of nature derive, lead to many different self-consistent universes, with many different… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that… — Albert Abraham Michelson Copy Share Image
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Physics appears to be a complicated subject, because the ideas of physics are difficult for us to understand. Our brains were designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)."… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There is only one universal language, which is the language of numbers and proportions that are so striking and stunningly built into… — Willem Witteveen Copy Share Image
“So why do it?,’ he challenged. ‘Why return to biological when a quantum existence can empower you to overcome general relativity and… — Trevor Barton Copy Share Image
“It’s more like every electron in every atom in the universe paused, breathed in deeply, assessed the situation, and then reversed its… — Lydia Netzer Copy Share Image
