Quotes About Physics

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

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.

What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what's beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks.

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Pool, it became clear to me, is all about angles. First, there are simple angles, as you must hit the cue ball to either side when you are not straight on.

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.

I used to say I represented 33% of the strategic reserve of physicists in Congress.

It's the distortion, the violation of what we think of as the rules of reality—of society, of nature, of humanity, of physics, of space and time—that engenders horror.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms. The

To boil water, the MED is 212°F (100°C) at standard air pressure. Boiled is boiled. Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled." Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used for something else more productive.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems . . . there's no law of physics preventing them." –Michio Kaku Physicist and co-founder of string field theory

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

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And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual's function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you're in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

But here's what physicists tell us. Things, in the quantum world, do not happen in steps. They happen immediately.

It is not the physicist but the Self-realized [spiritual] master who comprehends the true nature of matter.

Newton's Law of Motion is a law of maya: "To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction; the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed." Action and reaction are thus exactly equal. "To have a single force is impossible. There must be, and always is, a pair of forces equal and opposite.

Neutrinos have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic! Robert to Vittoria

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact. Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all—even air.

Ever since I was a child, I've had the gut sense that there's a consciousness behind the universe. When I witness the precision of mathematics, the reliability of physics, and the symmetries of the cosmos, I don't feel like I'm observing cold science; I feel as if I'm seeing a living footprint…the shadow of some greater force that is just beyond our grasp.

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed instantly. Physicists call the process 'annihilation.