Modern Physics Quotes

22 quotes by 14 authors

The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion… — Fritjof Capra
I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles… — Lewis Thomas
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision… — Fritjof Capra
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed… — Werner Heisenberg
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the… — Arthur Koestler
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the… — Fritjof Capra
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth… — Fritjof Capra
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started… — Werner Heisenberg
Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves… — Paul Davies
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison… — David Bentley Hart
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Eddington
Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that weâ€™re dreaming… — Alberto Villoldo
Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some… — Terence McKenna
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way. — Fritjof Capra
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method… — Martin Heidegger
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has… — Robert Lanza
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. — Brian Greene
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the… — Werner Heisenberg
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. — C. V. Raman

Who Wrote These Modern Physics Quotes

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