Physics Quotes

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. (Ernest Rutherford)
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. View quote
Frederick Soddy
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. View quote
Edward Witten
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. View quote
Richard Feynman
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. View quote
James Joseph Sylvester
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists. View quote
David Hilbert
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. (H. L. Mencken)
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. View quote
Dan Brown
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work. View quote
James D. Watson
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. View quote
Francis Crick
I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism. View quote
Julian Assange
I recognize nothing that is not material. In physics, chemistry and biology I see only mechanics. The Universe is nothing but an infinite and complex mechanism. Its complexity is so great that it borders on willfulness, suddenness, and randomness; it gives the illusion of free will possessed by conscious beings. View quote
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So the reader of Ctesibius or Archimedes and the other writers of treatises of the same class will not be able to appreciate them unless he has been trained in these subjects by the philosophers. View quote
Vitruvius
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78. (Paul Dirac)
As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. View quote
John Avlon
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not. View quote
Edward Teller
No, this trick won't work.... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love. View quote
Albert Einstein