Astrophysics Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Over the last century, our physical description of the world has simplified quite a bit. As far as particles are concerned, there appear to…

— Lee Smolin

“Quarks are so weird that they have been referred to as “The dreams that stuff is made from,” and they are way beyond the…

— Clive Maxfield

In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't…

— Lisa Randall

In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to…

— David Gross

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

— Haim Harari

“Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can…

— John Gribbin

“What do you know about quantum physics?” An unwilling curiosity welled up in Emma. “Not much except that it’s a modern theory that explains…

— Rebecca Zanetti

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we…

— Richard P. Feynman

“And what if neutrinos in their uncountable multitudinous dark-matteredness gravitationally directing the universe . . . are the souls of the dead?”

— E.L. Doctorow

“Quarks are quirky beasts. Unlike protons, each with an electric charge of +1, and electrons, with a charge of –1, quarks have fractional charges…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories.”

— Brian Morton

“Our best theories of people, presented on their own terms and without reference to underlying particles and forces, leave plenty of room for human…

— Sean Carroll