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Physics Quotes by Stephen Hawking
- One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would…
- The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more…
- We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow…
- It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!
- While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too…
- I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
- I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the…
- It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It…
- Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
- It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination.…
- Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born
- I like physics, but I love cartoons.
- Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the…
- 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.
- In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough…
- Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental…
- Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
- No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
- God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone…
- I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by…
- My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the…
- In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted…
- My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too…
More Physics Quotes
- I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams
- Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. — Dave Barry
- 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