Physics Quotes

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

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.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.