Physics Quotes - Page 4

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and seperate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

We're machines for turning caffeine into physics

There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.

I need physics more than friends.

According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

Metaphysics is a science.

A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.

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.