There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some…

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge…

— Gregory Benford

“Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken, rather nice-looking…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The Fermi Paradox?” “Yes. It’s named after Enrico Fermi, the famous physicist who helped build the first fission reactor, the first fission weapon, and…

— H. Paul Honsinger

I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's the song…

— M. Shadows

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

In this other dimension I feel tension surrounding my every move. You and I are together at last. We are captive in our own…

— London Elektricity

“the new theory of matter has entirely over thrown the old conception of the unchanging atoms, and they are now regarded to be composed…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He…

— Peter Shaffer

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space…

— Martin Rees

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

— Carl Sagan

“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 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

“The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.”

— Abraham Hicks