Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
After I finished my degree in India in 1980, I came to the U.S. to get a master's, and I was teaching… — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady… — George Will Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see what's going on with physics these days because they're starting to come out with stuff that sounds remarkably… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet; the whole… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
“In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that… — Henry Enfield Roscoe Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“fundamental about physical reality, but merely something about our location in it, forming part of our cosmic postal code. • Although these parallel… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ...… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
I think it laughable, frankly, that the physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything.… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“C. S. Lewis once wrote that man has two clues to the meaning of the universe. One is the knowledge of a law… — J Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“Indoctrination,” Michael Simpson replied. “We still base our science on the Theory of Relativity. Not because it is one hundred percent correct,… — Erik Hamre Copy Share Image
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Her fusion reactor came online, generating power for the jump engines. Deep in her belly, the engines began to spin up until… — Gareth L. Powell Copy Share Image
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of Clapham Common... One fine… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Put another way, social physics is about how human behavior is driven by the exchange of ideas—how people cooperate to discover, select,… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke,… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“We were members of a research group with a great interest in nuclear physics and totally devoted to this branch of science--and… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
