Courses Quote by Paul Dirac

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

To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.

— Lene Hau

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

— Anonymous

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

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

— Paul Dirac

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may…

— Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

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

— Niels Bohr

Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have…

— Pierre Duhem

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

— Linus Pauling

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