Physics Quotes

892 quotes by 538 authors

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society. — John Cameron
When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge… — John Cameron
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a… — Hudson Stuck
It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged… — Robert B. Laughlin
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to… — Michael Behe
There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers… — Patrick Stewart
Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a… — John Henry Carver
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. — Edward Witten
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his… — James Cronin
In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics. — James Cronin
I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison. — James Cronin
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable… — Ralph Merkle
Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all… — Geoff Downes
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her… — Kenneth G. Wilson
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. — David O. Russell
Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics. — Steve Allen
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they… — Nancy Cartwright
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics? — Mark Hyman
I am fascinated by quantum physics. — Vinny Guadagnino

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