Occam’s Razor: The simplest theory is usually the correct…

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

— Marion Cotillard

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“The generalized theory of relativity has furnished still more remarkable results. This considers not only uniform but also accelerated motion. In particular, it is…

— A.A. Michelson

“Quantum Technology Is No Longer Theoretical The quantum revolution is not the discovery of quantum physics. It is the transition from understanding quantum reality…

— Ludmila Morozova-Buss

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

— Kedar Joshi

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not…

— Ashoke Sen

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

— Arthur Eddington

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's…

— Peter Higgs

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,…

— J. Willard Gibbs

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson