Physics Quotes - Page 9

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

I am fascinated by quantum physics.

How can you be a physics major and be shocked when you get pregnant from having sex?

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

What does reflect reality very well is complexity theory, which comes from physics. I'm the one pioneering the idea of bringing it to capital markets. When you look at capital markets through the lens of complexity theory, you ask "what's the scale of the system?" Scale is a fancy word for size. What measures are you using? If you look at total debt, the concentration of assets in the five largest banks, what percentage of the total assets of the five largest banks are interconnected? What you see is a very densely connected, fragile system that could collapse at any moment.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.