Abstraction Quote by William Cecil Dampier

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

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of…

— Robert S. Mulliken

The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of…

— Melvin Schwartz

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

— Boris Sidis

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

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Niels Bohr

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

That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us.…

— Arthur David Ritchie

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

— Albert Einstein

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

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