Quotes About Physics

God throws dice, what can I say?

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

You believe in God? Dude. Only God could have created physics.

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), p. 122.

Physics is all about order and design. About laws that govern the forces making up our universe. We didn't create them. We just discovered them and learned how to use them. It is now my humble opinion that when you have laws, you have a lawgiver. When you have overwhelming evidence of intelligent design, you have an intelligent designer. Unless such a conclusion gets in the way of your personal autonomy and career.

A bare black hole is pure empty spacetime—no atoms, light, strings, or particles of any kind, dark or bright. It's empty space—or, in physics slang, the vacuum.

An experimental physics lab is probably unlike any other room you've been in before. The lighting is harsh, of course, aggressively bright and beyond the reach of aesthetic concerns. There are sounds of machines, a harmonic hum, sometimes just from fans on computer equipment as opposed to any motorized parts. There's never any bespoke sound absorbers, so the machines have a sonic clarity that seems intentional, cranked up for some postindustrial experimental orchestra.

It's okay to applaud the laws of physics.

Anti-Tachyon displacement emitter AKA Flux Capacitor

The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.