Physics Quotes

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I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry… — Kary Mullis
The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer… — Martin Rees
The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it… — Paul Bloom
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art.… — Susanna Phillips
As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to… — Paul McEuen
There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics. — Morgan Saylor
Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I… — David Lee
I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to… — David Lee
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the… — David Lee
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. — C. V. Raman
Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form. — David J. C. MacKay
Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their… — Peter Agre
I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics. — Leonard Mlodinow
We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in… — Kip Thorne
One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed. — Edward M. Lerner
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. — James Heckman
The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter.… — Lindsay Wagner
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in… — Willard Boyle
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and… — Benjamin N. Cardozo
Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface. — James Gleick

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