“ 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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“ If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. ”
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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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“ 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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“ The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics. ”
- Albert Einstein- 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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“ 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 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 consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. ”
- Werner Heisenberg- 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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“ We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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“ We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. ”
- David Russell- Copy
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“ Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
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“ People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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