And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. – Michael Polanyi
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn’t make it work. – Peter Higgs
Much remains to be learned about stratospheric chemistry – and, in more general terms, about the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere. – Mario J. Molina
I don’t comment on the physics errors of ‘Star Wars,’ all right. I just – you let that one go. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know. – John Deacon
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. – Michel de Montaigne
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world’s formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable. – Martin Heidegger
I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary – the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. – Leonard Susskind
To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It’s one whole. – Lene Hau
I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in ‘Pippin.’ – John Benjamin Hickey
Physics is nothing but the ABC’s. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots. – Johann Georg Hamann
I’m a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don’t really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. – Laura San Giacomo
If you’re talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you’re talking about football, I don’t have to take a back seat to anyone. – Joe Greene
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. – John Avlon
I do theoretical particle physics. We’re trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies. – Lisa Randall
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. – John Cameron
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it’s more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics. – Leonard Susskind
When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics. – John Cameron
I’ve always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. – John Banville
I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master’s degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time. – Jerome Isaac Friedman
I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison. – James Cronin
The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. – Lisa Randall
Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic. – Robert Woodrow Wilson
It’s hardly a secret that I’m skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it’s not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another. – Seth Shostak