Chiefs Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

— David Hestenes

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use…

— Brian Greene

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

— Richard P. Feynman

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth,…

— Paul Davies

The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility…

— Albert A. Michelson

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but…

— Richard Hamming

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent…

— William Cecil Dampier

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general…

— Charles Darwin

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be…

— Alan Lightman

“Many concepts and ideas become laws in time, like the laws of physics. In time, many of these same concepts lose validity in favor…

— Dejan Stojanovic

The equations of dynamics completely express the laws of the historical method as applied to matter, but the application of these equations implies a…

— James Clerk Maxwell