Physical Quotes

3624 Physical quotes by 2351 unique authors

I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ...… — Freeman Dyson
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere… — Lewis Thomas
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be… — Erwin Schrodinger
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if… — Paul Dirac
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a… — Richard P. Feynman
Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too. — Arthur Eddington
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation… — Epicurus
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this… — Louis Agassiz
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social… — Karl Pearson
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… — Ernst Mach
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the… — Wolfgang Pauli
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...… — John Stuart Mill
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most… — Humphry Davy
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It… — Niels Bohr
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by… — John Stuart Mill

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