Physics Quotes

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

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

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

Physics Works, and I'm still alive!

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

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

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical.

One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Physics changes, but reality stays the same

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.