Clever Quote by Ian Hacking

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

— Arthur Eddington

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money…

— Stephen Hawking

“The current crisis in particle physics springs from the fact that the theories have gone beyond the standard model in the last thirty years…

— Lee Smolin

All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there…

— Murray Gell-Mann

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of…

— Steven Weinberg

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind of victim…

— Peter Woit

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in…

— Edgar Mitchell

Scientists can never be sure about the correctness of their theories. Every theory is just as good as the things it manages to predict…

— Sabelo Lan Mashabela

“Looking toward the future, there are two possibilities. If I’m wrong and the MUH is false, then physics will eventually hit an insurmountable roadblock…

— Max Tegmark

The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence…

— Bill Foster

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb