Felt Quote by Arthur Eddington

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

— Anthony Standen

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of…

— Steven Weinberg

No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea…

— Hans Bethe

“Quantum mechanics, for example, shows us that we are not as separate from the rest of the world as we once thought. Particle physics…

— Georg Feuerstein

“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are…

— Kevin Michel

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many…

— Albert Einstein

“We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

“Consider Rutherford playing his thoroughly unlikely hunch about alpha backscattering, Heisenberg remembering an obscure remark of Einstein’s and concluding that nature only performed in…

— Richard Rhodes

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

— Eugene Parker

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

— Niels Bohr

“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it…

— Max Tegmark