Physics Quotes - Page 11

• The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test is whether it works. And the great point about Newton’s theory of gravitation was that it worked, that you could actually say something about the motion of the moon without knowing very much about the constitution of the Earth.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moon, Knowing, Earth

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• The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

  John Ziman

  Book, Research, Undergraduate

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• Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

  William Fogg Osgood

  Branches, Geometry

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• Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Play, Understanding

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• Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.

  Lene

  Lucky, Strange, Study

  "Q&A with Lene Hau". Interview with Harvey Blume, archive.boston.com. March 17, 2007.

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• 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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• We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Principles, Turns

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.

  Fabiola Gianotti

  Music, Beautiful, Nature

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• There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe.

  Martin Rees

  Life, Views, Civilization

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• The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Reality, Two, Race

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• Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.

  Richard Smalley

  Reading, Blow, Origin Of Life

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• When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Men, Progress, Female

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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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• I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Thinking, Answers

  "Interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, philosophy for the public, and everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy and chemistry and I continued to study those subjects through high school and college on into graduate school. That's what prepared me for being an astronaut; it actually gave me the qualifications to be selected to be an astronaut.

  Sally Ride

  School, Math, College

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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• I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Ideas, Quantum

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

  Michio Kaku

  Publicity, Awareness, Increase

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and they are extremely expensive. So Michael J. Fox's hover boards are not possible until we invent room temperature super conductors.

  Michio Kaku

  Zero, Law, Boards

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagination, Leader, Valleys

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• Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Distance, People, Waste

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• Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Our World, Revision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Over You, World

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

  George E. P. Box

  Believe, Engineering, Branches

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• Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry

  Albert Bandura

  Knowing, Judging, Peers

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.

  Deepak Chopra

  Force Fields, Energy, Different

  Source: accessnewage.com

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