Theoretical Physics Quotes
17 quotes by 14 authors
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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,…
— Max Born
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What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the…
— Hermann Bondi
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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
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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
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Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
— Adam Pascal
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I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore…
— Linus Pauling
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I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
— Max Born
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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon…
— Erich Fromm
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In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because…
— Scarlett Thomas
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When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as…
— Max Planck
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I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the…
— Stephen Hawking
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The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
— Paul Dirac
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It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
— Stephen Hawking
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The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history…
— David Gross
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Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
— David Gross
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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
Who Wrote These Theoretical Physics Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 17 Theoretical Physics Quotes as follows: