Quotes about Physics

"In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable."
-Frank Wilczek

"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."
-John Fowles

"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
-Sir Arthur Eddington

"Something unknown is doing we don't know what."
-Sir Arthur Eddington

"We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own."
-Sir Arthur Eddington

"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
-Sir Arthur Eddington

"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars."
-Sir Arthur Eddington

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
-Albert Einstein

"We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."
-Stephen Hawking

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
-Ernest Rutherford

"For a lot of kids this is their first introduction to chemistry and physics concepts. By doing projects it becomes more real for them."
-Robert Aochi

"We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here."
-Peter Diamandis

"Physics is a terrible, terrible, terrible thing. It takes all of your energy, all of your time and all of your attention."
-Walter W. Wada

"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
-David Hilbert

"A lot of [developers] have an amazingly weak grasp of physics. We've become a much more connected world and there's a lot more to program for than Web services."
-James Gosling

"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

"Handling those incoming items is a big issue. We get buried under it. The physics of clutter is that it will come into your office without your assistance, but will not go away without your assistance."
-Julie Mahan

"I've always been interested in all sorts of things. Art, physics, history, philosophy, math -- they're all interesting. Making games just seems like a way to bring all these seemingly unrelated things together."
-Dan Wolfe

"Did you see that poof of dust come up when they ran by? That's how dry the ground is. The most tender part of the horse is from the knee to the hoof. The hard ground makes it harder for them to run. It's just physics."
-Dick Gross

"Physics and computer science help in the programming aspects of making a game. Math helps in balancing game-play and making rules and fine art is obviously helpful in just making a game look good."
-Dan Wolfe

"I was very advanced in physics, so I thought that something in astrophysics was where I would go ? I was thinking about NASA and stuff like that."
-Brian Henson

"[Every laboratory experiment to] produce some of the simplest chemicals of life has completely failed, ... The information carried in DNA cannot be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry."
-William Harris

"Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth."
-Andrew Coates

"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy."
-Max Born

"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation."
-Richard Feynman

"I'm kind of a dork, and I like physics."
-Dennis Tarsi

"It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss."
-Richard Feynman

"This effectively is like an A-plus on your final exams in physics."
-John Pincavage