Assumption Quote by Rupert Sheldrake

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

— Niels Bohr

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing…

— John Ruskin

“there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within…

— Albert Einstein

Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is…

— Frederick Soddy

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

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

— Werner Heisenberg

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

“Science is entirely dependent on constants. Anything that is not constant (natural disasters, poor construction, or other human factors) is nearly impossible to include…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

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

— Lene Hau

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

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

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

— Aristotle