Physics Quotes

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My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the… — Immanuel Kant
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be… — Lee Smolin
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish… — Noam Chomsky
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone. — Arthur Eddington
When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics — Benoit Mandelbrot
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I… — Jacob Bronowski
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. — Greg Egan
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern. — Antony Hewish
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging new links between… — Bruce H. Lipton
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,… — Huston Smith
Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there. — Elon Musk
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say. — William James
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow… — Arthur Eddington
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose. — Paul Davies
The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on… — Leon M. Lederman
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror. — William Kenneth Hartmann

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