Quotes About Physics

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

I was brought up as a physicist.

Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.

Apparently, some physicists argue that time is curved. I suppose this means that the past is in some way still present.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is all about applied maths and physics. If I were to learn anything further in physics or mathematics, it simply was not there.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

It's not clear in physics why you can't see the future.

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing.

I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.