Electrical Quote by Arthur Schuster

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

— Linus Pauling

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler

...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of…

— Melvin Schwartz

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that…

— Thomas Nagel

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

— Sidney Altman

“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.”

— Richard Feynman

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent…

— William Cecil Dampier

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is…

— Hans Kramers