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Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT! — Felix Alba-Juez

At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist. — Bruce H. Lipton

I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works. — Evangeline Lilly

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

If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing. — J. Richard Gott III

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist. — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio. — Stephen M. Barr

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress. — Paul A.M. Dirac

The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics. — Victor J. Stenger

Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter. — Carl Sagan

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. — Richard P. Feynman

How can one look happy when he is contemplating the anomolous Zeeman effect? (Wolfgang Pauli) — Manjit Kumar

The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics. — Alan J. Heeger

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. — Luis Walter Alvarez

Physics is the science of motion. — Christoph Schiller

There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves. — Felix Alba-Juez

Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one. — Owen Chamberlain

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science. — Lewis Wolpert

can you imagine a world without god and science? — Subodh Kumar

Light brings us the news of the Universe. — William Henry Bragg

Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move. — Albert Einstein

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

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. — Steven Molaro

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know. — John Deacon

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ... — Thomas Jefferson

Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory. — Asher Peres

You can't change physics; but you can ride it like a bull. — Brian Bennudriti

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know. — Lawrence Shepp

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. — Ann Leckie

Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it. — Felix Alba-Juez

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself. — Lee Smolin

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. — Terry Pratchett

(Rutherford himself was fond of saying, "In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting" - words — Sam Kean

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships. — Bjork

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases — Simon Newcomb

Perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is
physics with a different twist to it.
my world just hasn't discovered the twist. — Elizabeth Kay

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough. — Jay Nichols

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science. — Geoffrey West

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. — Julius Thomas Fraser

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford

The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated. — Israel Gelfand

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space. — George Gordon Byron

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things. — Albert Einstein

If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . . — John Gribbin

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. — Albert Einstein

Politics is more difficult than physics. — Albert Einstein

A billion neutrinos go swimming in heavy water: one gets wet. — Michael Kamakana

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it. — Leon M. Lederman

there is nothing real or true that is timeless — Lee Smolin

Vibration is the core of the spirit. It is the breath of life. — Suzy Kassem

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion. — Robin Wasserman

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. — Bertrand Russell

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. — Robert Lanza

Quantum mechanics - the physics of our world - requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance. — Brian Greene

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! — George Gamow

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. — Lord Kelvin

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. — Freeman Dyson

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo. — John Collings Squire

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

There should be no boundary to human endeavor. — Stephen Hawking

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

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. — David Eagleman

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. — John Twelve Hawks

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 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

Physics is the study of the structure of consciousness. — Gary Zukav

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. — Niels Bohr

We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist. — Mohammed Ali

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics. — Fred Hoyle

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. — Richard Feynman

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath. — Ernest Rutherford

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede

Science ... it works. — Marko Kloos

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business. — Glen Taylor

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. — Robert Andrews Millikan

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. — Werner Heisenberg

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years. — Norwood Russell Hanson

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. — Stephen Hawking

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable. — Frank Wilczek

I don't believe any scientific field to be superior to another. — Abhijit Naskar

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." — Arthur Eddington

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics. — Polykarp Kusch

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. — Albert Einstein

Time becomes meaningless without memory. — Jon Edgell

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology. — William J. Clinton

Physics is like acne. The more you scratch, the more it expands.... — Shikha Kaul