The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The science behind Interstellar is interesting, because some of it is absolutely real astrophysics and orbital mechanics, some of it is theoretical… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling," Harry said finally, "that we're coming at this from the wrong angle. There's a tale I once heard… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes said that the greatest remaining scientific questions are: What caused the Big Bang? What is the grand unified theory that… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Quantum physics speaks in chance, with the syntax of uncertainty. You can know the position of an electron but you cannot know… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world branches off from the existing one. Eating breakfast or skipping it, turning… — Erica O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“George Malcolm: half white, half black, with messy tousled hair, rumpled and tugged between kind of curly and extremely curly. Once, a… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“You said, ‘Why do I frighten you?’ Frighten me? Yes you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe is magnetic and everything has a magnetic frequency. Your feelings and thoughts have magnetic frequencies too... Whatever you… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments,… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
“Whatever you desire, it comes from the universe, and whatever you manifest, be it situations, the right partner, friend, or spouse, the… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I cannot describe Or explain the speed of light Or what makes thunder roll across the sky And I could never theorize… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“We present a series of hypotheses and speculations, leading inescapably to the conclusion that SU(5) is the gauge group of the world… — Howard Georgi & S. L. Glashow Copy Share Image