Physics Quotes - Page 24

• Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

  Max Born

  Follow Your Dreams, Six Months, Knows

  "A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, Ch. 11, March 1, 1988.

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• It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

  Richard P. Feynman

  Important, Energy, Today

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Drama, Real, Successful

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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• I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Play, Worry, Want

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• The laws of physics that we regard
  as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything
  but.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Law, Sacred, Regard

  John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.298, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science

  Werner Heisenberg

  Moving On, Cutting, Feelings

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• The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Engineering, Needs

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• That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Stamp Collecting, Stamps, Collecting

  "In Defence of ‘Stamp Collecting’" by Matthew Wale, conscicom.org. June 29, 2017.

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• The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.

  Paul Dirac

  Law, Too Much, Chemistry

  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.391, Cambridge University Press

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• Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Calculus, University, Rice

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• There are no accidents or coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity - because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspiring, Coincidence In Life, Action

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.

  Roger Penrose

  Law, Circles, Consistency

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• Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

  Amy Carter

  Wells

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• If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!

  Frank J. Tipler

  Law, Laws Of Physics, Ifs

  Frank J. Tipler (2007). “The Physics of Christianity”, p.62, Image

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• Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Law, Choices

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• Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

  David Chalmers

  Interesting, Study, Computer

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• People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least not in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.

  Paul Davies

  Order, Law, People

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• Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us

  Paul Davies

  Law, Design, Purpose

  Paul Davies (1985). “Superforce”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you be a physics major and be shocked when you get pregnant from having sex?

  Sister Souljah

  Sex, Shocked, Pregnant

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• Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Thinking, Would Be, Particles

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• I'm really into quantum physics. Some of my friends are into it, some of them aren't, so I'm trying to get them excited about discovering all these interesting things about thoughts and the power of thoughts. It gives me chills thinking about it. It's fun.

  Carmen Electra

  Fun, Thinking, Giving

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• Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

  Andrew Lo

  Simple, Psychological Disorders, Law

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• I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

  Barbara Block

  Strong, Class, Remember

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• If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.

  Edward Condon

  Running, Effort, Important

  "Physics, in What is Science?: Twelve Eminent Scientists and Philosophers Explain Their Various Fields to the Layman". Book by James Roy Newman, published by Simon and Schuster, p. 102, 1955.

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• Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have their source in experimental method, which is acquainted only with sensible appearances and can discover nothing beyond them. The resolution of these questions transcends the methods used by physics; it is the object of metaphysics. Therefore, if the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

  Pierre Duhem

  Reality, Two, Theoretical Physics

  "The aim and structure of physical theory". Book by Pierre Duhem, translated by Philip P. Wiener, p. 10, 1991.

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