Physics Quotes

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I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy… — Balfour Stewart
Chemistry is the dirty part of physics. — Johann Philipp Reis
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature. — Alfred Harker
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and… — Nicholas Metropolis
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. — Pierre Duhem
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading… — Dennis Flanagan
Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they… — Tsung-Dao Lee
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances… — Joseph Lovering
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true. — John Ziman
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years. — Norwood Russell Hanson
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one… — Paul Davies
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of… — Maria Goeppert-Mayer
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief… — Antony Hewish
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that… — Frank J. Tipler
There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but… — Abraham Pais
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to… — Fred Hoyle
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model… — Hilary Putnam

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