1322 quotes by physicists for you to enjoy

In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals. Gregory Benford

Best Winter Plants Insects Animals Enjoy Range Temperate Developed Check Bugs Off Keeps Wide Wide Range Zone

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Man Science Edge Action Live Both Mystery Always Surrounded

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Claim Previous Over Access Greatest Privilege May Centuries Century

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous. James Prescott Joule

Alone Power Destroy Carried Out Annihilation Demands Force Affirm Any Which Theory Creator Believing Necessarily Belongs

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. John Arbuthnot

Political Own Lies Parties Political Parties Die Swallowing Last

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? John Archibald Wheeler

Beautiful Simple Will Stupid Other Otherwise Say Could Idea Surely How Been Decade Behind Century Grasp Each Millennium

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. John Polkinghorne

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. John Polkinghorne

When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light. Kip Thorne

Light First Universe Telescope Astronomy Out Windows Opened His Optical Up Trained Modern Heavens Galileo Electromagnetic

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. Klaus Fuchs

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate? Lawrence M. Krauss

Science Battle Cause Debate Devil Evidence Religious Religious Beliefs Him Policy Subject Deny Discussion Person Public Public Policy Beliefs Whom

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics. Lawrence M. Krauss

Mathematics You Important Think Other Philosophy Logic Case Area Being Literature Which Fields Them Really View Descriptive

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression. Leonard Mlodinow

Motivational Architecture Mind Awareness Our Mental Rather Mental Processes Outside Self Arise Like Operate Forces Because Due Been Subject Brain Subliminal Than Repression Processes Inaccessible Conscious Portions

On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection. Leonard Mlodinow

Sense Caring Impart Touch Seems Unconscious Subliminal Connection Level

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. Leonard Susskind

Science Remember Unforeseen Rule Exception Stuff Surprises Happens

The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation. Leonard Susskind

Success Random Universe Fluctuation Cosmology Idea Ordinary Against Created Speaks

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities. Lisa Randall

Mathematics Science Creativity Physics Humanities Other Beneficiaries Cosmology More Particle Essential Just Arts Acknowledged Fields Widely

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. Martin H. Fischer

Work You Man Doctor Inversely Proportional Without Narcotic His Cannot Poor Skill Use Your Who Amount Needle

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'. Martin H. Fischer

Great Made None Discoveries Researcher Specialist

In diagnosis think of the easy first. Martin H. Fischer

First Think Easy Diagnosis

Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them. Michio Kaku

Survival Better Space Will Face Odds Asteroid Our Later Destroy Possible Gigantic Dinosaurs Threat Threats Entire Only Never Catastrophic Knew Sooner Sooner Or Later Hit Them Planet Prepare Now

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