Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active nature ; by his intellectual nature ;… — Richard Maurice Bucke Copy Share Image
“You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“That the woman in her had died in anguish and a vengeful man had been born in her place apparently brooked no… — Karen Kondazian Copy Share Image
“I studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you… — Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth Copy Share Image
“Earth, stars, and the vastness of space; yesterday, today and tomorrow; and the endlessly increasing knowledge of the relation of forces, present… — John A. Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“The point of absolute equilibrium is where the Universe reaches its “highest absolute” point on the macro side and its “lowest absolute”… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“The broken gear in the machinery of the universe that had allowed the two of them to spend a few days together… — James Hampton Copy Share Image
I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Wheeler wasn’t the first to point out that quantum mechanics slips into paradox the minute you introduce a second observer. The Nobel… — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
“Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I would say [to my father], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying [you are not believing… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it… — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt.… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The universe is one of continual creation, so therefore we too are continually creating. The form of our creativity is not as… — Joseph Curiale Copy Share Image
Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics… — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I knew that they needed to jettison the goal of finding a law of physics applicable to all observers in the universe… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image