Elon Musk Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Principles, Fundamentals

• Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivation, Thinking

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. 2013.

• I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

  Elon Musk

  Principles, Analogies, Firsts

  "Elon Musk’s Mission To Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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

  Elon Musk

  Physics, Mechanic, Quantum

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

  Elon Musk

  Father, Engineering, Physics

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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