20th century Quote by Paul Davies

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the…

— Michael Crichton

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory.…

— Douglas Sirk

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it…

— Anonymous

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

— Albert Einstein

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation…

— I. Bernard Cohen

The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history…

— Ernest Rutherford

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use…

— Brian Greene

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

— Stephen Hawking

“Modern science was born through the Scientific Revolution in the 11th/17th century at a time when, as we saw earlier, European philosophy had itself…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given…

— George Smoot

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining…

— David Bentley Hart

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth,…

— Paul Davies