Physics Quotes - Page 19

• Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

  Stephen Hawking

  Development, Philosopher, Modern

  "Stephen Hawking tells Google ‘philosophy is dead’". Google Zeitgeist Conference, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2011.

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• When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

  Martin Heidegger

  World, Modern, Method

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• Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

  Thomas Huxley

  Assumption, Chemistry, Sometimes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

  Joan Jett

  Strong, Together, Life Is

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• What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

  Michio Kaku

  Engineering, Law, Impossible

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• I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.

  Michio Kaku

  Children, Reading, Book

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• Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

  Robert Lanza

  Animal, Law, Modern

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

  Robert Lanza

  Law, Opposites, Long

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.beliefnet.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

  Robert Lanza

  Different, Range, Observation

  "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

  Robert Lanza

  Islands, Flying, Purpose

  "A New Theory of the Universe". Essay by Robert Lanza, theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2007.

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• Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

  Ernst Mach

  Science, Order, Experience

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.197, Cambridge University Press

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• The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

  Rene Magritte

  Art, Math, Science

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• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  Maimonides

  Order, Perfection, Wish

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.298, Moses Maimonides

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• If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Thinking, Dizzy, Becoming

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• I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Study, Metaphysics, Subjects

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• There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

  Alan Moore

  Law, Two, Mind

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• I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Soul, Energy

  "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

  Elon Musk

  Principles, Analogies, Firsts

  "Elon Musk’s Mission To Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

  Elon Musk

  Mechanic, Quantum, New Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

  Elon Musk

  Father, Engineering, Environment

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Water, Cooking, Steak

  "Can I Eat That?" with David Pogue, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2012.

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• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Space, Fields, Quantum

  "Can I Eat That?" with David Pogue, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2012.

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• If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

  Henri Poincare

  Wish, Different, Looks

  Popular Science Vol. 82, No. 15 (p. 215), March 1913.

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• Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Animal, Vegetables, Law

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• The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Examination, Trends, Medical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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