Physics Quotes

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If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever… — Murray Gell-Mann
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to… — H. L. Mencken
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. — Michel de Montaigne
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just… — Alan Moore
I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of… — Bharati Mukherjee
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. — Elon Musk
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. — Elon Musk
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And… — Elon Musk
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside. — Nathan Myhrvold
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. — Nathan Myhrvold
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident,… — Joyce Carol Oates
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though… — Pope Paul VI
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of… — Henri Poincare
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. — Sally Ride
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. — Bertrand Russell
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the… — Bertrand Russell
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. — Erwin Schrodinger
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can… — Erwin Schrodinger

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