Physics Quotes - Page 2

All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

Physics Works, and I'm still alive!

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.

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

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

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