Beautiful Quote by David Mermin

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it…

— Max Tegmark

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

— Paul Dirac

I love physics.

— Gza

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the…

— Robert B. Laughlin

“physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe.”

— Max Tegmark

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

— Abraham Pais

“Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect was the work for which he ultimately won the Nobel Prize. It was published in 1905, and Einstein…

— Sean Carroll

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“I love physics because it is about truth, a world determined by principles and laws—no messing around or twisting things like in politics, particularly…

— Malala Yousafzai

“Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.”

— Douglas E. Richards

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

— Yuri Milner