“We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without… — John Cameron Copy Share Image
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“MOST OF WHAT EXISTS IN THE UNIVERSE—OUR ACTIONS, AND ALL OTHER FORCES, RESOURCES, AND IDEAS—HAS LITTLE VALUE AND YIELDS LITTLE RESULT; ON… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics.… — Edwin Moses Copy Share Image
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[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Imagine the universe is like this cloth.” Philippos said, lifting up an old rag off the ground. “There are thousands of tiny… — D.M. Enslin Copy Share Image
“One of the various theories proposed to explain the negative result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment with light waves (conceived to measure… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
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He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don't need a spaceship to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The vacuum of physics contains in its faculties everything that the laws of nature will permit. It fluctuates-the virtual particles come and… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
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I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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![“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections. [About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]” quote by Niels Bohr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/412/niels-bohr-4542_analogy_we-must-be-clear-that-when-it-comes-to-a_2898071.png)
![“[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.” quote by Seth Lloyd](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/976/seth-lloyd-13748_bits_with-quantum-computers-you-can-calculate_133222.jpg)
