Laws Of Physics Quotes - Page 5

• In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I've somehow missed, then please enlighten me. - Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Moving, Law

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• I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Law, Shadow, Rooms

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.69, Dell

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• All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Acting, Bags

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• The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

  Isaac Asimov

  Law, Errors, Variation

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

  Kate Atkinson

  Sleep, Cat, Thinking

  "Human Croquet: A Novel".

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• There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

  Alex Steffen

  Thinking, Law, Opposites

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• There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

  Alan Moore

  Law, Two, Mind

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• That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

  Robert Lanza

  Law, Opposites, Long

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.beliefnet.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

  Robert Lanza

  Animal, Law, Physics

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

  Michio Kaku

  Engineering, Law, Impossible

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• Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Understanding, Religion

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• The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Thinking, Law

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• There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Believe, School

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• I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

  David Deutsch

  Travel, Believe, Law

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• One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Religion, Atheism

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• The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

  Alfred Harker

  Science, Law, Crucible

  Alfred Harker (2011). “The Natural History of Igneous Rocks”, p.282, Cambridge University Press

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• Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Ignorance, Law

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• A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Epic, Law, Legs

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• This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

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• The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

  Anita Shreve

  Fall, Heart, Law

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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• When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

  Paul Davies

  Jobs, Law, Limits

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• How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

  Joseph Sobran

  Thinking, Reality, Government

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• To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

  David Deutsch

  Reality, Law, Understanding

  "The Father of Quantum Computing". Interview with Quinn Norton, www.wired.com. February 15, 2007.

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• What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it.

  Walter Lewin

  Exercise, Love Is, Discovery

  Walter Lewin (2012). “For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways science has not yet been able to fathom. In short, by radically seperating science from religion, we are not merely segregating two human institutions; we are fragmenting ourselves as individuals and as a society in ways that lead to deep, unresolved conflicts in terms of our view of the world, our values, and our way of life.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Views, Law, Two

  B. Alan Wallace (2004). “The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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