I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter. — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“Lots of data gets collected through the latest technology today, and not all of it is about people's consumer preferences.” — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“There's atoms, which is things that is too small to see, that's what we're all made of. And there's things that are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary -… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we… — Paul Davies 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
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Quantum mechanics, for example, shows us that we are not as separate from the rest of the world as we once thought.… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
“Homi Bhabha is just 30 years. He is a mechanical engineer by training. Like the electron he will talk about, he made… — P.V. Manoranjan Rao Copy Share Image
“Lecter sits in his armchair with a big pad of butcher paper doing calculations. The pages are filled with the symbols both… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I don’t get it,” Clarence whispered to me. “We’re the only ones in the place. When are your friends supposed to get… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the… — Gordon L. Kane Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
“I never thought about a job in astronomy until I saw a job advert advertising one. It was in the Canary Islands,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Despite my resistance to hyperbole, the LHC belongs to a world that can only be described with superlatives. It is not merely… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“The great unanswered question is whether there exists some undiscovered organizing principle which complements the known laws of Nature and dictates the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Another class of universal truths is the conservation laws, where the amount of some measured quantity remains unchanged no matter what. The… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics: Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
“How could the vacuum, which has nothing in it, have any energy at all? The answer comes from another equation: Einstein's famous… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who… — James Cronin Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“It seems to me trivially true that particle physics does in fact deal with the simplest objects in the entire universe: atoms… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image