Laws Of Physics Quotes - Page 4

• I don't know what laws of physics are involved, but if you fill a gym with teenagersand tell them to stare at one object, heat is actually produced. I half expected tospontaneously combust.Katrina

  Suzanne Selfors

  Law, Half, Heat

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• I love filmmaking when fate is a part of the process and you are dependent on the laws of physics and the elements to get a single moment that transports or in some way creates an illusion even for a moment. I think that is tremendous fun and what I think filmmaking is, catching lightning in a bottle.

  Larry Fessenden

  Fun, Single Mom, Fate

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter comes from.

  Ben Stein

  Law, Matter, Physics

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• There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, sending people to other planets. It's harder than we were aware a few decades ago. I think there used to be this widespread imagination, this idea that we'd eventually just hop in a rocket and go to Mars.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Thinking, Light, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.

  Vannevar Bush

  Art, Law, Design

  VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”

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• No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Love, Law, Looks

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.60, Gibbs Smith

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• People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least not in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.

  Paul Davies

  Order, Law, People

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• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.

  Eugene Wigner

  Grateful, Law, Miracle

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media

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• When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Believe, Law, Weather

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

  James Hansen

  Thinking, Law, Looks

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

  Paul Gilding

  Motivation, Inspiration, Law

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• Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

  Brian Greene

  Discovery, Law, Use

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• In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, 'too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Running, Flower, Law

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.6, Vintage

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• The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

  Bill McKibben

  Yield, Law, Divergent

  "Natural Capitalism" by Paul Hawken, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Agency, Law, Miracle

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• Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth are essentially physical problems, and the morphologist is, ipso facto, a student of physical science.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Flower, Math, Law

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• The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

  Paul Davies

  Dream, Real, Law

  "Dreams - the lucid experience". "All in the Mind" with Lynne Malcolm, www.abc.net.au. November 2, 2014.

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• A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Kids, Technology, Law

  "Why gravity director Alfonso Cuarón will never make a space movie again" by Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. October 01, 2013.

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• Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

  Kami Garcia

  Law, Space, Physics

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Inquiry, Birth

  "Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process - that this protégé of supernatural intellect couldn't think of a better way to forgive our sins than to have himself tortured to death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  Interview with Chip Rowe, www.playboy.com. August 20, 2012.

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• ...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.

  Michio Kaku

  Writing, Years, Law

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• The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

  Dan Brown

  Law, Canvas, Physics

  "Angels & Demons".

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• Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Law, Parent, Physics

  Sophie Kinsella (2007). “Shopaholic & Baby”, Random House LLC

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• You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge of a cliff and going forward seems impossible, not for a lack of will, but a lack of space. The possibility of another day stands in defiance of the laws of physics. And you can't go back. So you want to fall, let go, give up, but you can't. And every breath you take reminds you of that fact. So it goes.

  Kevin Powers

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Fall

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