1320 quotes by physicists for you to enjoy

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. Stephen Hawking

World Remove Our Way Perceptions Observer Us

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do. Stephen Hawking

Positive Myself Me Others Worse Say About Could Because Still Were Motor Off Get Disease Taught Pity Much

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. Stephen Hawking

Time People Universe Philosophers Broad Complete Everyone Able Shall Take Part Principle Understandable Scientists Discover Exist Discussion Just Ordinary Ordinary People Then Should Theory Why

It is extremely important to me to write for children. Stephen Hawking

Me Important Extremely Write Children

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. Albert Einstein

Ethics Believe Consider Immortality Superhuman Individual Concern Authority Behind Human

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. Albert Einstein

Religion Experience Fear Mystery Mixed Even

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert Einstein

Too Libel Cruel Look Dollar American Themselves Us Many Even

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. Albert Einstein

Way Destiny Physical Case Comprehensive More Point Could Fairer Limiting Than Any Which Should Theory Lives

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. Albert Einstein

Confusion Go Away State Weeks Go Used Away

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking. Andre Geim

Progress Sense Thinking Driven Unconventional Adventure Always Been Human Human Progress

String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation. Brian Greene

Binary Dance Master Big Stars Universe Stately String String Theory Frantic Physical Potential Majestic Primordial Principle Big Bang Equation Reflections Bang Waltz Wondrous Heavenly Happenings Grand Galaxies Show Theory

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost? Brian Greene

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution. Brian Greene

I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness. Brian Josephson

Science Reality Book Physics States Out Eastern Parallels Some More Pointed Mysticism Investigating Allowed Feel Between Ideas Altered Read Quantum Quantum Physics Got Than Conventional Interesting Round Consciousness Started

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. Eugene Wigner

For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy. Fabiola Gianotti

Home Me Rest Energy Back Gives Where Place Peaceful

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima. J. Robert Oppenheimer

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered. John Polkinghorne

Too Much Thinking Too Very Much Theological Present

Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes. Luis Walter Alvarez

Love Nature Physics Heroes Important Beauty Become Tools Our Secrets Those Intrinsic Dream Finding Physicists Exciting Uncovered New Most Because Scientific Experimental Us Who Reasons Two

Fusion has not been proven to be safe, and it is too costly. Masatoshi Koshiba

Too Fusion Costly Safe Proven Been

The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door. Michio Kaku

Time Day Great Technology Somebody Energy Incredible Our Nuts One Day Claims Wrap Knocks Mastered Maybe Door Granddaughter Us Create Your Who Descendants Slam Necessary

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it. Murray Gell-Mann

Physics Whatever Think Says About Someone Only He Dizzy Talk Without Quantum Quantum Physics Becoming Understood Anything Shows

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Niels Bohr

Technology Will Increase Thirty Thousand More Only Previous Advanced Advancement Continue Years Than Exponential Last Two

Quotes by Physicists