Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning… — Paul Saffo 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
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut… — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest… — Fritjof Capra 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
One myth-perception is our continued emphasis of a Newtonian materialistic world, which by definition emphasizes the primacy of matter and somewhat ignores… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Ignored...was the one unbridgeable gap between physics and any such science of human behavior: the surprises that arise from free will and… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,… — Roger Penrose 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
“Alexander of Whitby taught that the universe is like a tapestry only parts of which are visible to us at a time.… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it's such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“[A]s you will come to see, everything in life comes at a price. Nothing is free, not a single thing, tangible or… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist Robert W. Wood was asked to respond to a toast ...… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think,… — F. David Peat Copy Share Image
“Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form…the cosmic… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
“team of astronomers led by John M. Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detected ripples in the fabric of space-time —… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore… — Max Born Copy Share Image
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now,… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image