Physics Quotes - Page 22

• The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Design, Purpose

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• The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

  Leon M. Lederman

  Real, Science, Goal

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• One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

  William Kenneth Hartmann

  Science, Sometimes, States

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• It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.

  Hermann Weyl

  Attitude, Real, Drawing

  Hermann Weyl, Frank Wilczek (2009). “Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science”, p.235, Princeton University Press

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• Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Effort, Energy, Groups

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• I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Receiving, Degrees, Excitement

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• It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality

  Wolfgang Paul

  Reality, Would Be, Aspect

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• Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

  Simon van der Meer

  Feelings, Able, Fields

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• I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

  Jack Steinberger

  Ideas, Generations, Might

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• Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we’re only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Believe, Long

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

  Barbara Brennan

  Past, Discovery, Experience

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• Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

  Paul Gilding

  Motivation, Inspiration, Law

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• It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Kids

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

  Ed Seykota

  Order, Surfing, Dynamics

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• That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

  Anthony Lane

  Sex, Order, Tears

  Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.653, Vintage

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  Abdus Salam

  Patience, Data, Sublime

  Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai (1987). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.279, World Scientific

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• The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

  Abdus Salam

  East, Heritage, West

  Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.16, World Scientific

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• I was always good at math and science and physics.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Math, Math And Science, Undesirable

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• The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Energy, Spirituality, Ancient

  "Has Modern Science Bankrupted Our Souls?" by Bruce Lipton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2011.

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• A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

  Bill Gaede

  Doe, Individual, Abstract

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• If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

  Bill Gaede

  Verbs, Nouns, Articles

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• Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but
  that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice....
  [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries
  in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of
  Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time,
  curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely
  configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

  Arthur Kroker

  Discovery, Practice, Space

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• We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways science has not yet been able to fathom. In short, by radically seperating science from religion, we are not merely segregating two human institutions; we are fragmenting ourselves as individuals and as a society in ways that lead to deep, unresolved conflicts in terms of our view of the world, our values, and our way of life.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Views, Law, Two

  B. Alan Wallace (2004). “The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

  Ken Burns

  Important, Jazz, Century

  Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (2000). “Jazz: a history of America's music”, Knopf

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