Able Quote by Arthur Eddington

Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if…

— Arthur Eddington

If you bang two electrons together with enough energy, you produce protons. If there are no independent laws, then all the properties of protons…

— Alan Guth

“If you believe that the atoms that are inside your brain and your body act differently because they are in a living person than…

— Sean Carroll

The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a…

— Werner Heisenberg

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according…

— Richard P. Feynman

Even if we ignore the 'non-theoretical' knowledge which we acquire through experience (such as the knowledge of what something tastes like) and concentrate on…

— Tim Crane

The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond…

— Niels Bohr

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's…

— Geoffrey West

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning…

— Lincoln Steffens

There is no complete theory of anything.

— Robert Anton Wilson

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

— Richard Dedekind

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to…

— Johannes Stark