Classification Quote by Ted Chiang

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

— Niels Bohr

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

— Greg Egan

Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but…

— Fritjof Capra

Even if we ignore the 'non-theoretical' knowledge which we acquire through experience (such as the knowledge of what something tastes like) and concentrate on…

— Tim Crane

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

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 first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness.... For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions"…

— Anthony Standen

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

— Aristotle

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a…

— Steven Weinberg

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

— Lene Hau

“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