Physics Quotes

Enough of this. Newton forgive me. You found the only way that, in your day, was at all possible for a man of the highest powers of intellect and creativity. The concepts that you created still dominate the way we think in physics, although we now know that they must be replaced by others farther […]

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

In science there is only physics, all the rest is stamp collecting.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

A quantum mechanic’s vacation, Had his colleagues in dire consternation. for while studies have shown, That his speed was well known, His position was pure speculation.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical reasons, but that’s not why we do it.

There once was a fellow named Blight Whose speed was much faster than light. He sat off one day In a relative way and returned on the previous night.