Physics Quote by Walter Isaacson

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description.…

— Niels Bohr

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

— Niels Bohr

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions…

— Werner Heisenberg

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

— Niels Bohr

The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed out' the…

— David E. Cooper

“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

“Bohr proposed once that the goal of science is not universal truth. Rather, he argued, the modest but relentless goal of science is “the…

— Richard Rhodes

“This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking…

— Michael Crichton

“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little:…

— Jean Fresnel

The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature.…

— Tsung-Dao Lee

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

— Thom Mayne

“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by…

— R.G. Collingwood