Quotes About Physics

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

momentum lost by any collision or impact is equal to the opposite momentum gained.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of death. If you say we want to make perpetual motion, we have discovered enough laws as we studied physics to see that it is either absolutely impossible or else the laws are wrong. But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Mulan is not a superhero, so her physical action needed to be anchored in a strong female body and bounded by the laws of physics.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says—we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.

The melding of experimental techniques with mathematical description was the great leap forward, accomplished in the seventeenth century, that brought us to the point at which, as Krauss put it, " Ã¢â'¬Ëœnatural philosophy' became physics.

Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded.

Shoket: ... You've got physics and cosmology closing in on the age-old problem of why there's something rather than nothing—that's one you philosophers, not to speak of theologians, have been chewing over a while. With we neuroscientists explaining consciousness, free will, and morality, what's left for the philosophers to ponder? Plato: Perhaps self-deception?

the success of relativistic quantum field theory offers no reason to believe that there is any such thing as a relativistic quantum field.

conservation of energy and matter

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the point of perversity. They are denying not only the facts of biology but those of physics, geology, cosmology, archaeology, history and chemistry as well.

As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

Smolin's idea, expounded in The Life of the Cosmos, hinges

every element has its own unique 'atomic number', which is the number of protons in its nucleus (and also the number of electrons orbiting