Books Quote by James

Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible…

— David J. C. MacKay

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

— Patrick Ness

If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.

— Julius Sumner Miller

Could you write about Physics so I can pass Scicene class?

— Chiana

I need physics more than friends.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

— Brad Sherman

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.

— Phil Keoghan

If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich…

— Jack Handey

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

— Paul Dirac

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a…

— Simon Cowell

There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.

— Bill Foster

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

— Maria Weston Chapman