Quotes About Physics

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

Time is a strange phenomenon that understands the physics of our world, but never the chemistry of it

Whenever I see all around, I see nothing except atoms & molecules

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity. Yet how many physicists, while arguing for the truth of Einsteinian physics, will claim that general relativity is as well established as Darwin's theory? Zero.

Stoic philosophy is like a fertile field, with "Logic being the encircling fence, Ethics the crop, Physics the soil.

The law of the conservation of energy is not simply a law of physics; it is a law of the whole moral universe, and

I do not even know what a matrix is," Heisenberg complained to Jordan. As

On one assessment there should be no doubt: Newton was the greatest creative genius physics has ever seen. None of the other candidates for the superlative (Einstein, Maxwell, Boltzmann, Gibbs, and Feynman) has matched Newton's combined achievements as theoretician, experimentalist, and mathematician.

The responsibility of any science, any pure pursuit, is ultimately to itself, and on this point physics, philosophy, and poetry unite with Satan in their determination not to serve. Any end is higher than utility, when ends are up.