The three-body problem is a term borrowed from physics. It is a phenomenon that can basically be explained like this: Two objects… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't… — Aaron D. O'Connell Copy Share Image
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all… — Joseph Lovering Copy Share Image
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During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
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The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the… — Chien-Shiung Wu Copy Share Image
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the… — Tom Callahan Copy Share Image
Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the… — Geoff Downes Copy Share Image
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or… — Michael Moritz Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Certainly to me it has been valuable to have to think through the basics of physics in order to present them in… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
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