A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. —George Wald More about this quote Tags: wonder science physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. —Ernest Rutherford More about this quote Tags: science physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: news communication gossip physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. —David Russell More about this quote Tags: world logic physics Isaac Newton Albert Einstein Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: education greatness physics service college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: love gravity physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy. It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more energy than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it's wireless. —William McDonough More about this quote Tags: science physics sun nuclear energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable. —Frank Wilczek More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Something unknown is doing we don't know what. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? —Richard Feynman More about this quote Tags: science physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email