Physics Quotes - Page 8

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.

Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.

I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I was being trained to be the first women in the fast-breeder reactor in India (and was in it when it first went critical) - I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I went into theoretical physics.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions." Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway."As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.