Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936. – Maurice Allais
‘The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. – Gore Vidal
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up. – Nick Davies
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics. – Frank Tipler
The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in. – Chen-Ning Yang
It’s not magic! It’s physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It’s like a spinning top. – Deborah Bull
In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. – Charles Edison
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It’s really counterintuitive. – Elon Musk
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. – David Gross
Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles. – Gregory Benford
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. – Dave Barry
In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics. – Francois Englert
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong. – Neil Turok
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model. – Erwin Schrodinger
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century. – David Lee
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers. – Paul Dirac
Sir Isaac Newton gave the extraterrestrials their biggest shot in the arm when he embraced the infinite universe as the basis for his hugely influential system of physics. Even so, the aliens of the early modern period remained creatures of philosophy rather than science. – Matthew Stewart
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. – Nathan Myhrvold
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. – Frederick Soddy
As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959. – Francois Englert