Physics Quotes

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If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb… — Bill Gaede
Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very… — Dirk Jan Struik
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
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics. — Nikola Tesla
Yes, I was really good in physics and in math. — Eva Herzigova
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present… — Jack Gilbert
What if consciousness is the ground of being? What if the possibilities discovered by quantum physics are the possibilities of consciousness itself? Remember there is… — Amit Goswami
Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), and… — James Doohan
Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where… — Albert Einstein
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein
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
It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space! — Stephen Hawking
When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I… — Margaret Geller
Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.'… — Brad Alan Lewis
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way. — Fritjof Capra
There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little… — Wernher von Braun
The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature… — Fred Hoyle
So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that… — Richard Bach

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