Physics Quotes

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So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. — John Polkinghorne
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. — Michael Polanyi
In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College. — Martin Ryle
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a… — Mary Roach
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to… — Andrei Sakharov
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at… — Huey Lewis
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists. — Nicholas Stern
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the… — Rupert Sheldrake
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because… — Scarlett Thomas
I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good… — Timothy Simons
I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of… — Robert Lanza
I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one… — Robert Lanza
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the… — Michael Moritz
I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at… — Randall Munroe
The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need… — Yuri Milner
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and… — Yuri Milner
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared… — Paul Davies
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and… — Paul Davies
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to… — Paul Davies

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