Physics Quotes - Page 29

• The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

  Abby Sunderland

  Sea, Heavy, Masts

  "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

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• I'm really into quantum physics. Some of my friends are into it, some of them aren't, so I'm trying to get them excited about discovering all these interesting things about thoughts and the power of thoughts. It gives me chills thinking about it. It's fun.

  Carmen Electra

  Fun, Thinking, Giving

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• Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

  Andrew Lo

  Simple, Psychological Disorders, Law

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• I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

  Barbara Block

  Strong, Class, Remember

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• I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.

  Ken MacLeod

  War, Character, Men

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• Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

  Ted Chiang

  Lovely, Fundamentals, Levels

  Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)”, p.52, Vintage

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• The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Encouragement, Buddhist, Discovery

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• Physics is simple, but subtle.

  Paul Ehrenfest

  Simple, Subtle

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• The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

  John von Neumann

  Algorithms, Mathematics, Theory

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.453, World Scientific

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• ... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Believe, Law

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Writing, Character

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

  Primo Levi

  Ideas, Alchemist, Gold

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• Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is the concern for content.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reality, Thinking, Order

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the queen of the sciences up on top, down through a bunch of squishy subjects, ending up with sociology and psychology on the bottom. Palaeontologists are not much above that in their conventional ordering.

  Richard Lewontin

  Queens, Top Down, Psychology

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

  Henry George

  Men, Law, Political

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Book, School, Understanding

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Philosophy, Fields, Resentment

  "Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?". Interview with Ross Andersen, www.theatlantic.com. Apr 23, 2012.

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• The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.

  Trudi Canavan

  Real, Mean, Law

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• I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

  Leonard Susskind

  School, Engineering

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• Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

  Arthur D. Levinson

  Hobbies, Persons, Mines

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• I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe.
  I disproved one of the then widely accepted “laws” of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike.

  Chien-Shiung Wu

  Senior, Views, Law

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• [There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

  William James

  Responsibility, World, Paganism

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

  Akira Yoshizawa

  Philosophy, Law, Joy

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• If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Believe, Doctors

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• Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Unfolding, Witness, Universe

  Daniel H. Wilson (2014). “Robogenesis: A Novel”, p.333, Vintage

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