Physics Quotes
892 quotes by 520 authors
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If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
— Albert Einstein
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Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.
— Roger Penrose
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Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter. "Spirit is the…
— Douglas Harding
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Physics without mathematics is meaningless.
— Edward Teller
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In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal…
— Philippe Starck
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Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics…
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.
— Paul Dirac
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I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
— John Henry Carver
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As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more…
— George Orwell
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I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate…
— Rene Descartes
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Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but…
— Wayne Dyer
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The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws…
— Paul Davies
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Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature,…
— Northrop Frye
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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon…
— Erich Fromm
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It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.
— Garrison Keillor
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Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we…
— Hermann Weyl
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Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection.
— Robert Moss
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I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles.…
— Elon Musk
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