This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a… — Eileen Pollack 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
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
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
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You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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
“Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
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The most fun is to inhabit the world where cartoon physics is king. And that just means that things move with kind… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
The key is to trust in your own divinity, to know that you are a piece of God, and that you are… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The one thing we can't really train for is weightlessness, real weightlessness. It's a ton of fun. It's pure Newtonian physics. You… — Julie Payette 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 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
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
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
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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
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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
We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal… — Cameron Winklevoss Copy Share Image
To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work… — David Gross Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a… — Will Self Copy Share Image
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
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