Physics Quotes

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A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are… — Fred Hoyle
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics. — Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer… — Richard P. Feynman
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment.… — Alan Sokal
Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or… — Wolfgang Pauli
But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things… — Albert Einstein
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known… — Richard P. Feynman
[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. — Ernst Levy
Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you… — Nirmala Srivastava
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. — Stephen Hawking
As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was… — Raymond Loewy
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the… — Bernard Baruch
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its… — James Clerk Maxwell
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics,… — Carl Sagan
Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry. — Adolf Hitler
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties… — Bertrand Russell
Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics. — Edward Witten
Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous. — Mark McKinnon
I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes. — Barbara Block

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