Physics Quotes

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What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory… — Murray Gell-Mann
I do not keep up with the details of particle physics. — Murray Gell-Mann
How can you be a physics major and be shocked when you get pregnant from having sex? — Sister Souljah
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon,… — Murray Gell-Mann
When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it… — Wolfgang Ketterle
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or… — Paul Lockhart
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into… — Imre Lakatos
Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences. — Ken Wilber
My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry. — Vilfredo Pareto
As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost… — Freeman Dyson
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. — John Avlon
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics. — Polykarp Kusch
I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that. — Tila Tequila
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for… — Franz Karl Achard
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended… — Freeman Dyson
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither… — Eugene Wigner
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as… — Henry David Thoreau

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