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Albert Einstein Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
James Stockdale They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
Albert Einstein No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love
Julius Robert Oppenheimer There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
Albert Einstein Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Stephen Jay Gould In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
B. F. Skinner 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 their subject matters.
Stephen Jay Gould In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classr
Eugene Paul Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim!
If it doesn't work, it's physics.
Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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.
"That's so stupid it's unbelievable!" - Mr. Hartman, my high school physics teacher
"Ye canna change the laws of physics, Cap'n!" -- Scotty
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 or chemistry.
"How 'bout I shatter the known laws of physics?" Dr. Forrester
"Hey... Cherry... Are *you* in the physics club?" -- John Bender
"He who argues with the laws of chemistry and physics loses."
"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
"Threads will die if left unfed." -- Second Law of Echo Physics
"Cap'n, you canna break the laws of physics!"
"We now control the future of physics." -- Dr. Reinhald
"E=MC^2. F=MA. You can't push a rope." -- Laws of Physics
"Chuck, it's because of physics..." -- Tom Servo
"It's worse than that, it's PHYSICS, Jim!"--McCoy
"Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics."

 

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