Physics Quotes

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[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom… — Albert Einstein
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. — Willard Van Orman Quine
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked… — George Herbert
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
Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so… — Dave Barry
I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. — Albert Einstein
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular. — Werner Heisenberg
Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it. — Niels Bohr
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers… — Martin Rees
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in… — Martin Rees
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has… — Wolfgang Pauli
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about… — Werner Heisenberg
A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries… — 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 Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology… — Michio Kaku
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
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time… — Albert Einstein
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on… — Martin Rees
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was… — Steven Weinberg

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