Physics Quotes - Page 15

• A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

  Fred Hoyle

  Science, If There Is A God, Common Sense

  "The Universe: Past and Present Reflections". "Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics", volume 20, p. 16, September 1982.

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• I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be... What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse.

  Charlie Munger

  Strong, Creating, Worry

  Charlie Munger's speech at the Breakfast Meeting of the Philanthropy Roundtable in Washington, D.C., November 10, 2000.

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• Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Chemistry, Mechanic, Quantum

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• No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

  Stephen Hawking

  Winning, Joy, Research

  "Stephen Hawking's £1.8m physics prize win proves time is money" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.

  Andrea M. Ghez

  Zero, Understanding, Black

  "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVAInterview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.

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• I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.

  Leon M. Lederman

  School, Kids, College

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Needs, Unnecessary

  "Stephen Hawking: 'Science Makes God Unnecessary'". Interview with Nick Watt, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Discovery, World, Genetics

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• I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

  Erez Lieberman Aiden

  Philosophy, Silly, Math

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• It is unnecessary to understand electromagnetic theory before wiring a lamp or to study physics in order to repair a pump. We count on our fingers and give no heed to the proliferating implications of the act.

  James R Newman

  Order, Giving, Lamps

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• Einstein and the Quantum is delightful to read, with numerous historical details that were new to me and cham1ing vignettes of Einstein and his colleagues. By avoiding mathematics, Stone makes his book accessible to general readers, but even physicists who are well versed in Einstein and his physics are likely to find new insights into the most remarkable mind of the modern era.

  Daniel Kleppner

  Book, Historical, Mind

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• All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Believe, Discipline, Confusing

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• Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.

  Al Gore

  Philosophical, Practice, Special

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• The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Years, One Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

  Ruth Brown

  Thinking, Want, Remember

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• If a handful of people look at the making of the film and realize, "Oh, my god!" It was so complicated. It was like doing quantum physics calculations every day while you're telling a joke. It was so insane! So, they can feel my pain.

  Rob Letterman

  Pain, People, Insane

  Source: collider.com

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• I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

  Bill Gates

  Dad, Math, Thinking

  "Hello Reddit – I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft founder. Ask me anything". www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

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• To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Curiosity, Important

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

  Michael Polanyi

  Book, Ideas, Ink And Paper

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• Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

  Gary Zukav

  Meditation, Lectures, Century

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• I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging?

  Chris de Freitas

  Views, Support, Fossils

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• I am not a climatologist, but I don't think any of the other witnesses are either. I do work in the related field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. I have spent my professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with gases - one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect. I have published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals.

  William Happer

  Thinking, Paper, Radiation

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• Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.

  Bill McKibben

  Political, Movement, Littles

  Interview with Diane Silver, www.resilience.org. January 2009.

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• Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles.

  Wayne Dyer

  Jesus, Teaching, Years

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• A basketball diameter is 10 inches and a rim is 18 inches so I made a 14-inch rim I put in to practice on. Few people could do that because it was so frustrating that it drove everyone but me nuts. That led to me shooting very high, which basic physics tells you is the best angle - the hole is bigger from above than from the side.

  Dolph Schayes

  Basketball, Nuts, Practice

  Source: alanpaul.net

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