Physics Quote by Rupert Sheldrake

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Plato holds a special place among them. His detailed interpretation of matter as a hollow space surrounded by regularly shaped bodies was too specific…

— Henning Genz

“Of all conceivable reasons for some sequence of physical events Plato recognizes only its ultimate aim as worthy of attention. The world is as…

— Henning Genz

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

“Plato argued that the material world of visible things was but a shadow of the true reality of eternal forms. He proceeds to explain…

— John D. Barrow

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature,…

— Dmitri Mendeleev

“The quarks were originally introduced as mathematical symbols-the carriers of certain properties that would facilitate mathematical understanding of elementary particles. This very role was…

— Henning Genz

“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which is why…

— Richard Dawkins

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

— Bertrand Russell

“Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief that the deepest workings of the world are…

— John D. Barrow

“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.”

— Richard Feynman

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

— Simone Weil