It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Theoretical physics hardly requires any research funding, so I never felt the need. The overall government and institutional support has been good… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller… — Bryce S. DeWitt Copy Share Image
“With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than… — Mark Rowlands Copy Share Image
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard - there are tried and trusted methods that… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
“Early in April 1933, the German government passed a law declaring that Jews (defined as anyone with a Jewish grandparent) could not… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“The prime number 137 had continuously occupied Pauli's mind. It is an approximate value for a constant appearing in the fine structure… — K. V. Laurikainen Copy Share Image
“The correct way to think about intelligence, in this case, is as a human quality shared by just about everyone, at least… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Whenever liquid water makes the transition to ice, energy is given off to the surroundings. In the process, the water itself assumes… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“The mind calls out for a third theory to unify all of physics, and for a simple reason. Nature is in an… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
