Physics Quotes - Page 5

• Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.

  Unknown

  Philosophy, Reality, Way

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• It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  Arthur Eddington

  Math, Perfect, Impossible

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me and you, the Earth, the Sun, the 100 billion suns in our galaxy and the 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Absolutely everything.

  Brian Cox

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Alaska, Atoms

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• The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Looks, Quantum

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• Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

  Dirk Jan Struik

  Math, Long, Healthy

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• Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Oneness, Quantum, Universe

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• The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth”, p.15, Routledge

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• Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

  Terry Riley

  Thinking, Law, Acceleration

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• Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.

  Walter Gilbert

  Needs, Looks, Biology

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• One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Luck, Ingredients, Forget

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in the game are. But understanding the rules is just a trivial preliminary on the long route from being a novice to being a grand master. So even if we understand all the laws of physics, then exploring their consequences in the everyday world where complex structures can exist is a far more daunting task, and that's an inexhaustible one I'm sure.

  Martin Rees

  Moving, Science, Law

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• No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

  Michael Polanyi

  Law, Inanimate Objects, Determined

  Michael Polanyi (1974). “Scientific thought and social reality: essays”, Intl Universities Pr Inc

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• It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

  Michio Kaku

  Science, Facts, Going For It

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Mar 02, 2010

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Nature, Science, Psychology

  W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine (1981). “Theories and Things”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

  Paul Dirac

  Lying, Science, Law

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• Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

  Steve Jobs

  Law, People, Car

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

  Fritjof Capra

  Responsibility, Science, Issues

  "The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1983.

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• It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Play, Theoretical Physics

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.102, Princeton University Press

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• I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Science

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• When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'

  Niels Bohr

  Nature, Science, Thinking

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

  James D. Watson

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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