Physics Quotes - Page 2

• Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

  Niels Bohr

  Real, Quantum, Made

  "Yoga Deepens Its Roots in the West" by Ravé Mehta, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Hydrogen Bomb, Physicist

  "Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics" by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson Talley, (Ch. 10, p. 150), 1991.

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• For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

  Alan Alda

  Flying, Magic, Humans

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• If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Life, Science

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• Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

  Bill Bryson

  Simplicity, Kind, Messiness

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.154, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

  Leo Szilard

  People, One Day, World

  Leo Szilard, Helen S. Hawkins, G. Allen Greb, Gertrud Weiss Szilard (1987). “Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control”, p.25, MIT Press

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• Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Powerful, Reality

  "How Do You Light a Fart?: And 150 Other Essential Things Every Guy Should Know about Science". Book by Bobby Mercer, 2009.

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• In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

  Lord Kelvin

  Science, Stamp Collecting, Stamps

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  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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• Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sex, Learning, Science

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• Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

  Maria Goeppert-Mayer

  Nature, Math, Men

  "A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists". Book by Russell L. Herman, p. 53, December 4, 2013.

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• Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

  Roger Penrose

  Mechanic, Quantum, Quantum Mechanics

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• In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

  Arthur Eddington

  Men, Quests, Quantum

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.267, Cambridge University Press

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• Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Reality, Thinking

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• The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Power, Energy

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.4, Psychology Press

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• Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

  A. N. Wilson

  World, Theory, Changed

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• Nothing happens until something moves.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Inspiration

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• Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

  Sheri Reynolds

  Energy, Shapes, Destroyed

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• In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Interesting, Mind, Twenties

  "Conversations with Einstein" by Alexander Moszkowski, (p. 69), 1971.

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• Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

  Galileo Galilei

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

  Dan Brown

  Law, Canvas, Paint

  "Angels & Demons".

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• I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Theoretical Physics, Convinced

  "Schrodinger : Life and Thought" by Walter J. Moore, (p. 1), 1992.

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• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

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• I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Airplane, Pilots, Air Force

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• I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

  John Banville

  Scary, Cosmology, Fascinated

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