Physics Quotes - page 2

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science. (Geoffrey West)
I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive. View quote
Nicanor Parra
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
Physics is becoming the study of organization. In this way ... it will converge with biology and psychology. View quote
Wolfgang Köhler
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. View quote
Johannes V. Jensen
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science. View quote
Alton Brown
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. View quote
David O. Russell
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top. View quote
Deborah Bull
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. View quote
Frederick Reines
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. View quote
Ken Burns
When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people. (Benoît Mandelbrot)
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. View quote
Peter Debye
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot. View quote
Auguste Comte
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. View quote
Maimonides
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. View quote
Edward Condon
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
all the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry. View quote
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming. View quote
Freeman Dyson
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce. View quote
Freeman Dyson
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. (E. P. Wigner)
If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the "unreasonable effectiveness" of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious. View quote
Stephen Hawking
We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. View quote
Stephen Hawking