Physics Quotes

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Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is… — Richard P. Feynman
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and… — Richard P. Feynman
Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea,… — Henri Poincare
In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he… — Arthur Eddington
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured. — Galileo Galilei
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach. — Michael Faraday
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week. — Richard P. Feynman
Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on… — Robert Gibbs
One can only learn by teaching. — John Archibald Wheeler
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the… — James Clerk Maxwell
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only… — Richard P. Feynman
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most… — Thomas Sowell
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they… — Richard P. Feynman
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth."… — Richard P. Feynman
One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . .… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should… — Ian Hacking
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished… — Benjamin Franklin
Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy? — Richard Bach
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… — Arthur Eddington
Physics is much too hard for physicists. — David Hilbert

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