We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay. – Richard P. Feynman
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn’t be too surprised about that because we’re evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can’t cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity. – Richard Dawkins
I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics. – Robert Coleman Richardson
Physics tells us observations can’t be predicted absolutely. Rather, there’s a range of possible observations each with a different probability. – Robert Lanza
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. – Sally Ride
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton’s formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. – Paul Davies
Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant. – Rupert Sheldrake
The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us. – Paul Bloom
That’s absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn’t an accident of the laws of physics. There’s a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite. – Robert Lanza
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. – Ralph Merkle
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. – Stephen Hawking
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. – Tim Berners-Lee
What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They’re attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That’s certainly physics, but it’s a kind of physics that is not yet testable. – Sheldon Lee Glashow
I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein’s work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India. – Srikumar Rao
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. – Thomas Cochrane
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. – Walter Kohn
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind. – Stephen Hawking
One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure. – Sheldon Lee Glashow
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. – Thomas Huxley
I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie. – Talulah Riley
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics. – Willard Boyle
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness. – Stanislav Grof
On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention. – Werner Arber
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist. – Walther Bothe
There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another. – Sheldon Lee Glashow