Able Quote by Rene Descartes

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

— Lewis Wolpert

Physics is simple, but subtle.

— Paul Ehrenfest

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

— Edward Teller

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood…

— Stephen Hawking

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

— Ernest Rutherford

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

— Isaac Newton

Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything.

— Sam Davis

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

— Edward Teller

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

— Niels Bohr

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

— Lene Hau

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description…

— Paul Dirac

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton