Physics Quotes - Page 24

• Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Criticism, Body

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

  Erich Fromm

  Science, Successful, Men

  1955 The Sane Society.

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• It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Doe, Goes On, Method

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1904). “The Logic of Hegel”

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• Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.

  Hermann Weyl

  Beauty, Art, Reality

  Hermann Weyl (1950). “Space, Time, Matter”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Math, Needs

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• Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection.

  Robert Moss

  Connections, Quantum, Shows

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.110, New World Library

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• I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Thinking, Would Be, Needs

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (October 14, 1929), as quoted in "Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections" edited by Alice Kimball Smith (p. 135), 1995.

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• Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Principles, Fundamentals

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• If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

  Magnus Pyke

  Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics

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• At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

  Mark Gatiss

  School, Chemistry, Wanted

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• A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Kids, Technology, Law

  "Why gravity director Alfonso Cuarón will never make a space movie again" by Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. October 01, 2013.

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• The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Men, Geography And History, Fabric

  "Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine".

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• My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

  Marya Hornbacher

  Teacher, Details, Students

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• As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Truth Is, Remarkable

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• What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it.

  Walter Lewin

  Exercise, Love Is, Discovery

  Walter Lewin (2012). “For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

  Walter Lewin

  Lost, Virginity

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• Physics Works, and I'm still alive!

  Walter Lewin

  Alive, Stills

  "Top of the iTunes chart: meet the professor who's making physics cool" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2007.

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• Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

  Neil Turok

  Quantum, Hardest, Whole

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• I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.

  Walter Lewin

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• You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Book, Thinking, Views

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1972). “The First Circle”

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• Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Christmas, Light, Fog

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

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• It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Spiritual, Reflection, Wrath

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 11, 1799.

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• The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Heart, Men

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• In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

  Charles Edison

  Two, Miracle, Would Be

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• One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

  Simon Newcomb

  Beautiful, Science, Hypothesis

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