“The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“So basically our universe is a lot of energy or light that is vibrating from a lot of nothingness creating our combined… — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Roger Penrose and I showed that Einstein’s general theory of relativity implied that the universe must have a beginning and, possibly, an… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Into this Universe, and why not knowing, Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“That’s impossible [...] You need infinite energy for light travel. Haven’t you heard of the theory of relativity?” She thought she had… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When an important change takes place in science, in which a new theory takes the stagw, the incoming theory is generally an… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Among the objections to the reality of objects of sense, there is one which is derived from the apparent difference between matter… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
I've talked to ghosts once. For me, it makes sense for them to be real because of physics. In physics, you can't… — Milly Shapiro Copy Share Image
The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
“your choices themselves are the consequences of a massive string of causation, set in motion countless billions of years before you were… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“According to string theory in quantum mechanics the core of energy and matter on a subatomic level is a vibrating, string-like filament… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical… — Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker Copy Share Image
“The universe is a unity. Every material thing is in all things. All things come from all, and all is in all… — John Toland Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to… — Mary Lyon Copy Share Image
I love physics with all my heart ... It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes… — Crash Davis Copy Share Image
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image