I canna’ change the laws of physics. I’ve got to have thirty minutes. – Scotty Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Naked Time’.
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics. – Gordon Gould
Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield. – Geoff Downes
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become. – Ha-Joon Chang
Football isn’t nuclear physics, but it’s not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across. – John Madden
The stability of what’s called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that. – Ian Hacking
I’ve always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities. – James Dashner
There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren’t a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics. – Ivar Giaever
So Whitehead’s metaphysics doesn’t fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. – John Polkinghorne
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear – a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. – Iain McGilchrist
Nothing is accidental in the universe – this is one of my Laws of Physics – except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity. – Joyce Carol Oates
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed. – A. N. Wilson
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it. – Abdus Salam
The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics. – Alan J. Heeger
Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn’t make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don’t have our physics quite right. – Andrea M. Ghez
There is no law of physics that says just because we’re connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives. – Astro Teller
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. – Arthur Eddington
What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced. – Antony Garrett Lisi
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics. – Benoit Mandelbrot
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics. – Arthur D. Levinson
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. – Aaron D. O’Connell
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons. – Andrei Sakharov
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics. – Aaron Klug
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
