Physics Quotes
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Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.
Richard Feynman -
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
Albert Einstein -
That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.
Albert Einstein -
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
Aaron Klug -
If quantum theory is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
Albert Einstein -
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
Laura San Giacomo -
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
Sally Ride
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The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.
Albert Einstein -
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.
Paul Davies -
I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
Yehuda Berg -
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn -
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.
Richard Feynman
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
Albert Einstein -
My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein -
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
Ralph Merkle -
I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
Eddie Redmayne -
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
Leonard Shlain
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If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing.
Aaron D. O'Connell -
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
Ha-Joon Chang -
We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.
Richard Feynman -
Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.
Adam Davidson