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At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist.
— Bruce H. Lipton
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] — William Shockley
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] — William Shockley
If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.
— J. Richard Gott III
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
— Frank Wilczek
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
— Kathryn Stockett
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
— Richard P. Feynman
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
— Arthur D. Levinson
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
— C.S. Lewis
I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
— Jeff Bezos
Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.
— Eraldo Banovac
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
— Ted Chiang
Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.
— Peter Watts
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
— Werner Heisenberg
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
— Criss Jami
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.
— Frank Tipler
can you imagine a world without god and science?
— Subodh Kumar
We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.
— Svetlana Alexievich
Physics Works, and I'm still alive!
— Walter Lewin
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— Anonymous
For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.
— Amit Goswami
Einstein ... even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.
— Orhan Pamuk
The truth is, everyone is confused by quantum physics.
— David Walton
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
— Leonard Susskind
Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.
— Lady Gaga
your first thought would send the power of Quantum physics into a hive of activity. your first thought, would inevitably become the destiny of the day
— Andre Jordan
If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.
— Steven Weinberg
There should be no boundary to human endeavor.
— Stephen Hawking
There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.
— Eric Allin Cornell
The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.
— Kedar Joshi
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
— Robert Robinson
We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.
— Kane Freeman
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
— Werner Heisenberg
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
Attacking the person instead of the argument is condemned in logic, widespread in physics, and not used nearly enough in humanism.
— Bauvard
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
— James Gleick
As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[
— Michael S. Horton
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
— Chris Hardwick
No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.
— John Myhill
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
— Bertrand Russell
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
— Richard Feynman
The labour we delight in physics pain
— William Shakespeare
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.
— Richard P. Feynman
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
— Brian Greene
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
— Brian Greene
There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.
— Anthony James Leggett
Think how hard physics would be if particles could think
— Murray Gell-Mann
A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.
— John B. S. Haldane
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
— Edward Teller
Seriousness of mind was a prerequisite for understanding Newtonian physics. I am not convinced it is not a handicap in understanding quantum theory.
— Connie Willis
Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple
— Amy Zhang
For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).
— Bill Bryson
I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.
— Deborah King
I am all for getting Prayer/Religion back into the schools. And while we're at it we should get more Science/Physics into the church ...
— George Martin
I love physics with all my heart ...
It is a kind of personal love, as one has for
a person to whom one is grateful for many things. — Lise Meitner
It is a kind of personal love, as one has for
a person to whom one is grateful for many things. — Lise Meitner
It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.
— Richard P. Feynman
Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
— Jeremy Aldana
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
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
— Alan Alda
I cross my arms. 'Seriously? That's the answer you're going with? First quantum physics and now nowhere and everywhere?
— Wendy Mass
Nothing happens until something moves.
— Albert Einstein
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
— Werner Heisenberg
How much does a thought weigh?
— Ijosephi Lowly Worm
In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.
— Harriet Lerner
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.
— John Collings Squire
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.
— Kevin Kelly
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
— Maimonides
It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
— Felix Alba-Juez
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.
— Fritjof Capra
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
I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.
— Brian Josephson
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
— Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
— David Eagleman
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
— David Gross
Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.
— John Twelve Hawks
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
— Thomas Cochrane