Physics Quotes - Page 33

• What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in physics explain, say the meaning of human poetry? Or how economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development? Can this new physics explain the currents of ecosystems, or the dynamics of history, or why human wars are so terribly common?

  Ken Wilber

  War, Mean, Ecosystems

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

  Julius Thomas Fraser

  Responsibility, Science, Matter

  Julius Thomas Fraser (1987). “Time, the Familiar Stranger”, p.358, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

  Steven Molaro

  Brother, Science, Engineering

  "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series): The Killer Robot Instability". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Age, Firsts, Steps

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• You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

  Ken Jennings

  Watches, Boards, Categories

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• The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

  James J. Gibson

  Space, Analysis, World

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• Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.

  John B. Watson

  Taken, Men, Animal

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• Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simplicity, Development, Owing

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.42, Routledge

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• Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Philosophy, Long, Rewards

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• They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

  James Stockdale

  History, Rhyming, Department

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• Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Opposites, Balance

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• To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Doors, Decide Upon

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• ...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

  Joao Magueijo

  Science, Curiosity, Losing

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• I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beauty, Art, Mean

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• If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Science, Statistics

  "Profile: Physicist John A. Wheeler, Questioning the 'It from Bit'" by John Horgan, Scientific American, pp. 36-37, June 1991.

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• Physics changes, but reality stays the same

  Richard Bandler

  Reality

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• From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Years, Might, Fields

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• As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Psychics, Process, Reconstruction

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.203, Shambhala Publications

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• And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

  Michael Polanyi

  Achievement, Chemistry, Biology

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, Awards, October

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• In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

  Burton Richter

  Technology, Years, Interesting

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• In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

  James Rainwater

  School, Chemistry, Mathematics

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• Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

  George Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Generations, Next

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• Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Discovery, Mind, Atoms

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• Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

  Eva Herzigova

  Math

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