Counterintuitive Quote by Sean Carroll

“Physics is thus a creative work of abstraction, far from the theory of everything that is sometimes claimed. For about a century, then, determinism…

— Mark Burgess

“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

“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it…

— Max Tegmark

“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

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

— Elon Musk

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money…

— Stephen Hawking

“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

“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and that “we…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“arguing that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure,”

— Max Tegmark

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