Appliances Quote by Joseph Lovering

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

The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced…

— Max Born

“Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world and if…

— Richard P. Feynman

The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of…

— Melvin Schwartz

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

While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest…

— William Mitchinson Hicks

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.”

— Richard Feynman

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson