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• We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Principles, Turns

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe.

  Martin Rees

  Life, Views, Civilization

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• Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

  William Fogg Osgood

  Branches, Geometry

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• The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

  John Ziman

  Book, Research, Undergraduate

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• I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Ideas, Quantum

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Men, Progress, Female

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• The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Reality, Two, Race

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• Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Distance, People, Waste

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• In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagination, Leader, Valleys

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• ... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Morality, Action, Influence

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• Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.

  Richard Smalley

  Reading, Blow, Origin Of Life

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• Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ethics, Morality, Mathematics

  Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.362, Princeton University Press

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• Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Our World, Revision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Over You, World

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

  George E. P. Box

  Believe, Engineering, Branches

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• Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.

  Mario Bunge

  Independent, Ideas, Roots

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

  Michio Kaku

  Publicity, Awareness, Increase

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Science, Law, Mechanism

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• Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

  Henry Miller

  Use, Firsts, Navigation

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• I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Thinking, Answers

  "Interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, philosophy for the public, and everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• [Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?]
  We won't know for a few years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Knowledge, Thinking, Years

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• Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.

  Deepak Chopra

  Force Fields, Energy, Different

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees,
  thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re
  revolutionizing physics or making a quilt, you must display
  your differences to make a difference.

  Martha Beck

  Quilts, Thinking, Differences

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• The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes of manifestation exhibit equivalent invariances for both consciousness and matter. When the program for mind-physics is complete the subject-object dichotomy of modal logic, the polarity of concept-percept, and the antagonism between morality and technology will all come to an end. Then the non-repeatable experiment will be understood to be more primary than the traditional repeatable experiment.

  Paul Laffoley

  Technology, Mind, Matter

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