Common sense Quote by Richard P. Feynman

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone…

— Richard P. Feynman

I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you…

— Adam Frank

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws…

— Leon M. Lederman

What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system…

— Thomas Kuhn

“in the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood—partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching…

— Carl Sagan

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

— Albert Einstein

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

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

— John Maynard Keynes

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

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

“Many concepts and ideas become laws in time, like the laws of physics. In time, many of these same concepts lose validity in favor…

— Dejan Stojanovic