Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without… — John Cameron Copy Share Image
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“MOST OF WHAT EXISTS IN THE UNIVERSE—OUR ACTIONS, AND ALL OTHER FORCES, RESOURCES, AND IDEAS—HAS LITTLE VALUE AND YIELDS LITTLE RESULT; ON… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Imagine the universe is like this cloth.” Philippos said, lifting up an old rag off the ground. “There are thousands of tiny… — D.M. Enslin Copy Share Image
“One of the various theories proposed to explain the negative result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment with light waves (conceived to measure… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I'm an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics.… — Edwin Moses Copy Share Image
You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don't need a spaceship to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Supposing a new era begins after the big crunch, will the number of protons (or baryons) be the same in the next… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
“In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that… — Charles P. Enz Copy Share Image
“When you think about it, the universe is nothing but this vast knackery of churning black holes and exploding stars, constantly free… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Quantum mechanics, for example, shows us that we are not as separate from the rest of the world as we once thought.… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
“At a workshop attended by expert researchers in quantum mechanichs in 1997, Max Tegmark took an admittedly highly unscienfific poll of the… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from physics to fiction, simply does not exist. Linearity is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion,… — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its destiny. Rather, it is a… — R.G. Risch Copy Share Image
Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I founded an educational software company called Knowledge Revolution. We had the first fully animated physics lab on the computer. You could… — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Germany had been united in empire for only eight years when Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879. He grew… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“by establishing the Mental Nature of the Universe, easily explains all of the varied mental and psychic phenomena that occupy such a… — Three Initiates Copy Share Image
“There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
![“[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.” quote by Seth Lloyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/976/seth-lloyd-13748_bits_with-quantum-computers-you-can-calculate_133222.jpg)
![“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections. [About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]” quote by Niels Bohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/niels-bohr-4542_analogy_we-must-be-clear-that-when-it-comes-to-a_2898071.png)
![“[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.” quote by Arthur Eddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/arthur-eddington-8366_felt_when-thinking-about-the-new-relativity-a_674760.png)
![“In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a formulation of quantum theory would be satisfactory which expresses the relation between the value of [the fine structure constant] and charge conservation…” quote by Charles P. Enz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a96/charles-p-enz-91251_fine-structure-const_in-his-first-philosophical-lecture-on-mo_1764442.jpg)
![“When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'” quote by Niels Bohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/niels-bohr-4542_abstract_when-asked-about-an-underlying-quantum-w_1467547.png)
