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“I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.”

“What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in physics explain, say the meaning of human poetry? Or how economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development? Can this new physics explain the currents of ecosystems, or the dynamics of history, or why human wars are so terribly common?”

Ifs Humans Mean Doe War Common Stage Theory Development Economics Historical Currents Physics Ecosystems Dynamics

Book:A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality

Source: A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality

“In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.”

Doe Funny Science Trouble Physics Science Physics Funny Science

Author:Frank Wilczek

“The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.”

Matter Science Speak Responsibility Tasks Asking Physics Interpreting

Book:Time, the Familiar Stranger

Source: Time, the Familiar Stranger

“Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.”

Ifs Science Time Religion Universe Easier Mathematics Physics Physicist Science Physics Raising Money Easier Times

Author:Leon M. Lederman

“Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.”

Science Brother Physics Engineering Younger Brother

Author:Steven Molaro

“Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.”

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Author:Aleister Crowley

“We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.”

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Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.”

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Author:Ken Jennings

“The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.”

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Author:James J. Gibson

“Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.”

Difficult Becoming Physics Physicist

Author:David Hilbert

“Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.”

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Author:John B. Watson

“Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.”

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Book:The Scientific Outlook

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.”

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Author:Stephen C. Meyer

“Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.”

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Author:Guglielmo Marconi

“They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.”

History Physics Department Rhyming

Author:James Stockdale

“Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.”

Life Action Becoming Balance Equal Opposites Physics Reactions Reverse Action And Reaction

Author:Walter Russell

“To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.”

Science Order Answers Progress Doors Curiosity Physics Decide Upon

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.”

Science Process Losing Curiosity Oneself Physics Jungle

Author:Joao Magueijo

“I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.”

“If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.”

Ifs I Can Science Math Physics Statistics

Author:Albert Einstein

“Physics changes, but reality stays the same”

Reality Physics

Author:Richard Bandler

“From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.”

Years Wells Facts Problem Might Fields Physics Consideration Immense Volume Layman

Author:Victor Francis Hess

“As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.”

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Book:Psyche and Matter

Source: Psyche and Matter

“And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.”

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Author:Michael Polanyi

“I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.”

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Author:John Pople

“In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.”

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Author:Burton Richter

“In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.”

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Author:James Rainwater

“Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.”

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Author:George Brown, Jr.

“No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.”

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Book:Scientific thought and social reality: essays

Source: Scientific thought and social reality: essays

“Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.”

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Author:Johannes Peter Muller

“The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.”

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Author:Johannes V. Jensen

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.”

“Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.”

Goes On Physics Laboratory Dominion Colony Cambridge

Author:Aaron Klug

“Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.”

“Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.”

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Author:Fritjof Capra

“Physics as we know it will be over in six months.”

Knows Months Six Physics Follow Your Dreams Six Months

Author:Max Born

“I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.”

Philosophy Convinced Physics Theoretical Theoretical Physics

Author:Max Born

“It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is”

Important Today Energy Realizing Physics

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

“I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.”

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Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.”

Want Play Worry Importance Physics

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.”

Law Regard Sacred Physics Laws Of Physics

Book:Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

Source: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

“The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science”

Feelings Would Be Moving Cutting Modern Development Understood Foundation Physics Violent Reactions Moving On Realising Modern Physics

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“The more physics you have the less engineering you need.”

Needs Physics Engineering

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.”

Physics Stamps Collecting Stamp Collecting

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“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.”

Men Writing Physics Opposition Frontiers New Frontiers

Author:Paul Dirac

“The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.”

Source: Sammlung

“Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.”

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Author:Elizabeth Moon

“There are no accidents or coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity - because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action.”

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Book:The Power

Source: The Power

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