There are (31,530,000) second in a year ,a (1,000) mil second in a second ,a million microsecond ,a billion nanosecond and the… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
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I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity… — John Pople Copy Share Image
Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Any thoughtful physicist, he said, well schooled in quantum mechanics, would agree that all time exists simultaneously, which I subsequently learned was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Scientists can never be sure about the correctness of their theories. Every theory is just as good as the things it manages… — Sabelo Lan Mashabela Copy Share Image
“We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Meteorologists don't use a script, and most create their own graphics and certainly put together their own forecasts. Most of us went… — Ginger Zee Copy Share Image
We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
In many ways, string theory attempts to go beyond Einstein's dream... an all-encompassing description of nature that works at large distances where… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
In physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
All it takes is a small change in Newton's laws, or the rules of atomic physics, and poof - life would either… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be… — Etienne Klein Copy Share Image
I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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