The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“We are out of munitions, We will have to depend on theoretical physics. (Spoken in the heat of battle by Sammuil Petrovitch… — Simon Morden Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into… — Linus Pauling 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
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission… — Erich Fromm 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
“Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller… — Bryce S. DeWitt Copy Share Image
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles… — Julian Schwinger 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
“The reason Dick 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard - there are tried and trusted methods that… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,… — David Gross Copy Share Image
“The correct way to think about intelligence, in this case, is as a human quality shared by just about everyone, at least… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The prime number 137 had continuously occupied Pauli's mind. It is an approximate value for a constant appearing in the fine structure… — K. V. Laurikainen Copy Share Image
“Until we have a firm understanding of the flow of time, or incontrovertible evidence that it is indeed an illusion, then we… — Nina Nenova Copy Share Image
Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“Part of the sting was taken away when the American Physical Society awarded its 2010 Sakurai Prize in theoretical physics to Hagen,… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
“I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“One of the things that sets Interstellar apart from other sci-fi movies is its lineup of executive producers. There’s Jordan Goldberg (Batman,… — Govert Schilling Copy Share Image
The science behind Interstellar is interesting, because some of it is absolutely real astrophysics and orbital mechanics, some of it is theoretical… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image