Explanation Quote by Richard P. Feynman

Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac…

— David Gross

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Richard P. Feynman

“Each of us is a complicated assymetrical outcome of the laws of electromagnetism and gravity.”

— John D. Barrow

“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the most significant…

— Richard Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the…

— Richard P. Feynman

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not…

— Richard P. Feynman

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

— Paul Dirac

The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility…

— Albert A. Michelson

“These two discoveries, of relativity and of the quantum, each required us to break definitively with Newtonian physics. However, in spite of great progress…

— Lee Smolin