Physics Quotes
Most popular physics quotes
Physics the basic science. One can easily argue that all other sciences are specialized aspects of physics.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth [with the lever].
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you.
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Physics is geometric proof on steroids.
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
The task of asking non-living matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place.
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
