“all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655) I'm the impulse before the language, I'm the reason before the science, I'm the pulse before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
“By the time I began my study of physics in the early 1970s, the idea of unifying gravity with the other forces… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers… — Albert Einstein 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
In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“These two discoveries, of relativity and of the quantum, each required us to break definitively with Newtonian physics. However, in spite of… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“All the known particles in the universe can be divided into two groups: particles of spin ½, which make up the matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,… — David Gross Copy Share Image
I know this might sound like an exaggeration, but Helio Gracie was to Jiu Jitsu what Albert Einstein was to physics. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
