Quotes About Physics

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.

The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.