Physics Quotes

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Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences,… — Fritjof Capra
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It… — Richard P. Feynman
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind… — Neil Postman
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. — Richard P. Feynman
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain
Photons have mass? I didnâ€™t even know they were Catholic. — Woody Allen
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty… — Richard P. Feynman
Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft"… — Tom Peters
Nothing happens until something moves. — Albert Einstein
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. — Richard P. Feynman
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon… — Albert Einstein
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. — Richard P. Feynman
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape. — Sheri Reynolds
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there… — Kate Atkinson
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that… — Ronald Reagan
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? — Richard P. Feynman
The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics. — Richard Dawkins
In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself… — Albert Einstein

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