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I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.
A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.
I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.
I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!
We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.