Physics Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Physics.
Top Quotes
“String theory”
“Thermodynamics”
“Quantum mechanics”
“Theory of relativity”
“Our judge is not God or governments, but Nature.”
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
“physics”
“Wikipedia: Physics”
“It’s the strangeness of the universe that has always been my favorite part of physics.”
“And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.”
“The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."”
“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”
“Physicists use the wave theory on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the particle theory on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays”
“If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be ''''Shut up and calculate!''''”
“... it's one thing in physics to write down the equations, but then you have to solve them — and that is sometimes easier said than done.”
“It is impossible, and it has always been impossible, to grasp the meaning of what we nowadays call physics independently of its mathematical form.”
“No current physics experiment or theory explains the nature—or even the existence—of emotions, money, fine art, football games, or people. What can physics say about such things?”
“The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”
“Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.”