Physics Quotes

• Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

  Albert Einstein

  Fun, Business, Ethics And Morals

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• There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Magic, Special, World

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are. There's a whole new science now of complexity, and what we see is that complexity requires a very different approach than the kind of bottom-up approach that fundamental physics has always used. We're gonna have to think about the world in a different way if we want to address complex systems.

  Adam Frank

  Moving, Thinking, Law

  "Doctor Strange Advisor Explains the Science Behind Marvel's Multiverse". Interview with Screenrant, screenrant.com. March 2, 2017.

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• Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

  Johann Philipp Reis

  Dirty, Science, Chemistry

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

  James D. Watson

  Social Work, Social, Science Physics

  "Lifelines". Book by Steven Rose, 1997.

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• There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

  Lord Kelvin

  Science, Discovery, Measurement

  "Is Scientific Genius Extinct?" by Ross Pomeroy, bigthink.com.

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• I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Growing Up, Thinking, Race

  "The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder and the Bomb" by Mark Fiege in Enviornmental History, Vol. 12, Issue 3, July 2007.

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Math, Science, Would Be

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• I need physics more than friends.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Needs, More Than Friends

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (October 14, 1929), as quoted in "Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections" edited by Alice Kimball Smith (p. 135), 1995.

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• A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

  Fred Hoyle

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• Physics is much too hard for physicists.

  David Hilbert

  Math, Physicist, Hard

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• The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

  Paul Davies

  Law, Laws Of Physics, Asks

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• Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivation, Thinking

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. 2013.

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• In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

  Frank Wilczek

  Funny, Science, Doe

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• For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Different, Use

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.94, Princeton University Press

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• I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

  Freeman Dyson

  Marriage, Divorce, Math

  Freeman J. Dyson (1996). “Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary”, p.169, American Mathematical Soc.

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

  Pascual Jordan

  Quantum Physics, Produce, Observation

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• Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

  Albert Einstein

  Years, Different, Drs

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• It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Ends, Quantum, Theory

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• The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

  Christopher Pike

  Simple, Errors, Practice

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Authority, Good Ideas

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.14, Hachette UK

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

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Firsts, Quantum

  "The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Volume IV: Causality and Complementarity" edited by Jan Faye and Henry J. Folse (1998); later quoted in Karen Michelle Barad "Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning" (p. 254), 2007.

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