Quote by Liu Cixin

The three-body problem is a term borrowed from physics. It is a phenomenon that can basically be explained like this: Two objects in space…

— Liu Cixin

Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies.…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics.”

— Wolfgang Pauli

“The three-body problem illustrates how easy it is to run into computational irreducibility. It is a problem that borders on the trivial, yet it…

— Richard Bookstaber

“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It is also…

— Richard A. Dunlap

“he made it his aim so to arrange the theory that, no matter how the choice was made, the phenomena of gravitation, so far…

— Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

“Nevertheless his prodigious intellectual powers persisted unabated. In 1696, the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli challenged his colleagues to solve an unresolved issue called the…

— Carl Sagan

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a…

— J. Willard Gibbs

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by…

— Dmitri Mendeleev

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius…

— Dominic Cummings

The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire…

— Lord Kelvin

“there is a physical problem that is common to many fields, that is very old, and that has not been solved. It is not…

— Richard P. Feynman