Abstraction Quote by Melvin Schwartz

“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

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

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 first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions"…

— Anthony Standen

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

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

— Bill Bryson

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

— Freeman Dyson

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

— Niels Bohr

“The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

— Stephen Hawking

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

— Paul Davies

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the…

— Stephen Hawking