...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ? Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Whatever you are putting out into the universe is going to be returned unto you and have a direct correlation to what… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The true human being is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have applied to go to either Durham or Loughborough University to study Applied Physics and would like to get some qualification… — Nasser Hussain Copy Share Image
I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. The… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings,… — Willie Garson Copy Share Image
One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only… — Michel de Montaigne 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
“what overwhelms is not the meaninglessness of the universe but the coexistence of an apparent meaninglessness with the astonishing interconnectedness of everything.” — Brian Philips Copy Share Image
That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Two possibilities exist... Either we are alone in this universe, or we are not. Both are equally terryfying — Live_Skate_Smoke Copy Share Image
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
You are the most powerful magnet in the universe and this magnetic power is emitted through your thoughts — Sitara Devi Copy Share Image
Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity.… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“My estimate for the northern lights in Oregon being predicted correctly seems to be about 5% accuracy.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Neils Bohr … is said to have remarked that anyone who did not feel dizzy when thinking about quantum theory had not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air,… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature.… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Relativity, in our case, means that success is relative to the time frame you choose to measure it with. An hour? A… — Cate East Copy Share Image
I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the… — Eugene Parker Copy Share Image
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image