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Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who…

— Lord Kelvin

Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and…

— Benjamin Peirce

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

— Daniel Bernoulli

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

— Werner Heisenberg

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Looking toward the future, there are two possibilities. If I’m wrong and the MUH is false, then physics will eventually hit an insurmountable roadblock…

— Max Tegmark

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

— Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would…

— Paul Davies

“Every problem in quantum physics had to be first “solved” using classical physics, and then be reworked by the judicious insertion of quantum numbers…

— John Gribbin

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

— William Fogg Osgood

“Over the last three decades, theorists have proposed at least a dozen new approaches. Each approach is motivated by a compelling hypothesis, but none…

— Lee Smolin

Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next…

— David Hilbert