More quotations tagged with “physics”
When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.
—Elon Musk
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
—Richard Feynman
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
—Sir Arthur Eddington
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
—Sir Arthur Eddington
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
—Sir Arthur Eddington