“ In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable. ”
- Frank Wilczek- Copy
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“ For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure. ”
- Sir Arthur Eddington- Copy
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“ I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. ”
- Sir Arthur Eddington- Copy
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“ It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. ”
- Sir Arthur Eddington- Copy
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“ Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. ”
- Sir Arthur Eddington- Copy
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“ We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. ”
- Sir Arthur Eddington- Copy
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“ When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my Theorem. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. ”
- Richard Feynman- Copy
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“ If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. ”
- Leon Lederman- Copy
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“ The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. ”
- Tom Hanks- Copy
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“ A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. ”
- Werner Heisenberg- Copy
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“ The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ”
- J. Robert Oppenheimer- Copy
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“ No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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“ Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. ”
- B. F. Skinner- Copy
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“ The distance-learning program will revolutionize the way we teach our children in Alabama forever. Just think about it: A kid in rural Clay County or Wilcox County will have the opportunity to take advanced physics, calculus, or even Chinese. ”
- Bob Riley- Copy
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“ I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. ”
- Hannes Alfven- Copy
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“ It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss. ”
- Richard Feynman- Copy
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“ A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth. ”
- O.G. Sutton- Copy
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