Chiefs Quote by James Clerk Maxwell

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

— Anonymous

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

— Niels Bohr

“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

We're actually really lucky that [physics] works, because no one knows why the thoughts in our heads should relate to the fundamental workings of…

— Suman Rai

It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon…

— Anthony Standen

“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and that “we…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

— Niels Bohr

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything…

— Celia Green

In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task…

— Niels Bohr

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

— John B. Goodenough

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics…

— Friedrich Nietzsche