Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and… — Norman Pirie Copy Share Image
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery,… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself.… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which… — Len Evans Copy Share Image
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
