Application Quote by Robert S. Mulliken

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

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

That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us.…

— Arthur David Ritchie

The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire…

— Lord Kelvin

“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are…

— Kevin Michel

“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

Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions,…

— Werner Heisenberg

“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed…

— George Gamow

The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical…

— Joseph Lovering

At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory…

— Val Logsdon Fitch

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

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

— Richard P. Feynman