It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Relativists can't accuse others of wrongdoing. I Say Relativism makes it impossible to criticize the behavior of others, because relativism ultimately denies… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential… — Ervin Laszlo Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
“as human beings, we must inevitably see the universe from a centre lying within ourselves and speak about it in terms of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the… — Geoff Downes Copy Share Image
It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the… — Tom Callahan Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't… — Aaron D. O'Connell Copy Share Image
The three-body problem is a term borrowed from physics. It is a phenomenon that can basically be explained like this: Two objects… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“The green fractals of the forest and the eons of faint star clusters above—my math’s teacher’s order in the universe—were nothing like… — Anya Allyn Copy Share Image
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
“Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all… — Joseph Lovering Copy Share Image
In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the… — Chien-Shiung Wu Copy Share Image
I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and ordering of events in time is… — Sten F. Odenwald Copy Share Image
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image