Physics Quotes - Page 7

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

Physics is simple, but subtle.

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

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

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In this very radical sense, quantum physics supports the doctrine that the whole is more than the combination of its parts.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.