Edward Witten Quotes

Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.

Edward Witten

• People
• World
• Question

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Car
  • Luxury

• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Changes

• The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • First
  • Serving

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Love
  • Reading

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Party
  • Celebrate

• Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • American
  • First

• Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Help
  • Parents

• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Question
  • Photography
  • Environmental

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Know
  • Fox

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Live
  • Power

• Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • House
  • Weird
  • Dumb

• So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

  

  Fredric Jameson

• Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Hope

• Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.

  

  Edward Witten
  • People
  • World
  • Question