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Physics Quotes by Richard P. Feynman
- It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a…
- It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if…
- Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
- Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
- It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is
- I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People…
- I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.
- A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for…
- The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
- All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
- I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use…
- In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got…
- Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is…
- Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and…
- If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.
- I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only…
- What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they…
- The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth."…
- As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!
- So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
- I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
- 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…
- Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
- 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…
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- I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville
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- I went to Princeton specifically to study physics. — Jeff Bezos
- Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. — Niels Bohr
- It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say… — Niels Bohr
- If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing… — Niels Bohr
- How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. — Niels Bohr
- The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes,… — Alton Brown
- It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top. — Deborah Bull
- Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than… — William S. Burroughs
- Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity.… — John Cleese