Physics Quotes - Page 32

• Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

  Rivka Galchen

  Ideas, Accepting, Unbelievable

  "Dream Machine" by Rivka Galchen, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined. Opinions vary on the answer. ..Bertrand Russell acknowledged..'Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little.' ..Mathematics may be indispensable to physics, but it obviously does not constitute physics.

  Etienne Klein

  Doe, Answers, World

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• The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Study, Biology

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• The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

  Max Horkheimer

  Perception, World, Connections

  Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.133, A&C Black

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• I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic whole.... (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Love, Beautiful, Stars

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.189, Stanford University Press

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• It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Law, Addresses

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

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• Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Spiritual, People, Pimp

  "Christine O’Donnell Thinks Psychics Are Evil Pimps" by Steve Krakauer, www.mediaite.com. September 15, 2010.

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• And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  World, Constant

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• I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.

  Linus Pauling

  Smart, Theoretical Physics, People

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• When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I? I lets 'em.

  John C. Lettsome

  Sweat, People, Ems

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• Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, One Day, Principles

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• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Science, Soul

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.27, University Press of America

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• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  David C. Cassidy

  Nature, Struggle, Science

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• Bohm's interpretation of quantum physics indicated that at the subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operated, location ceased to exist. All points in space became equal to all other points in space, and it was meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. Physicists call this property 'nonlocality.'

  Chuck Missler

  Space, Levels, Location

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• We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area of understanding seems to be the actual physical mechanism. Lets target an explanation at an audience that has taken 1 year each of undergraduate physics and chemistry, plus calculus. Once we have something that is convincing at this level, we can work on how to communicate this to the interested public (i.e. those that hang out in the climate blogosphere). Willis Eschenbach’s help is needed in translating this for the WUWT crowd.

  Judith Curry

  Taken, Years, Games

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• The laws of physics are not about to change. Set your agenda by what’s happening in the atmosphere, not by what is happening in the artificial world of Kyoto.

  Ross McKitrick

  Law, Kyoto Protocol, Atmosphere

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• This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Profound, Clerks

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• [About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Creativity, Science, Men

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• Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Science, Technology

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• A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

  Carl Sagan

  Religion, Generations, World

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.347, Ballantine Books

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• Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

  John Polkinghorne

  Believe, Reality, World

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• The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.

  Rob Enderle

  Reality, Games, Able

  "Chip Gives Games A Hit Of Reality". www.wired.com. April 28, 2006.

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• They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics class. They're faster and stronger, so the reality is the collisions have to be bigger.

  Randy Cross

  Reality, Class, Stronger

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• I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

  Frederick Reines

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Work, Delight

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