Physics Quotes

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

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

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

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

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

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

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

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

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

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.