Quotes About Physics

The period tells us the mass, of course

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

What goes up must come down.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

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

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.