Quotes by Physicists

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. Richard P. Feynman
Beautiful You Smart Matter Experiment Wrong How Your Theory Agree
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
Life Nature Own Human Nature Think Our Viruses Says Destructive Purely About Something Only Computer Count Computers Human Form Far Created Should Image
There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people. Stephen Hawking
People Stars Shadow Could Galaxies Even
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? Stephen Hawking
Saying Reality Pet Picture Few Sides Gazing Distorted Out Would City City Council Council Cruel True Know Bowl Bowls Because How Fish Years Years Ago Italy Owners Goldfish View Barred Keep Keeping
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein
Strength Soul Cause Master Only True Demands Himself Mastery His Person Reason Who Whole
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! Albert Einstein
Patriotism Hate Loathsome Heroism Name How Nonsense Passionately Command Goes Senseless Them Violence
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Albert Einstein
Man Respect Every Respected Individual Idolized Every Man
God always takes the simplest way. Albert Einstein
God Way Simplest Takes Always
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Werner Heisenberg
Nature Our Observe Method Questioning Itself Exposed
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. Albert Einstein
Opportunity Valuable Society Individual Development Accorded Human Depends Human Society
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. Stephen Hawking
Big Before Stars Universe Too Other Hundred Rapidly Thousand Would Rate Had Part Smaller Reached Greater Big Bang Been Hand Expansion Bang Size Form After Planets Even Million Present Second
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway. Stephen Hawking
Key Research Others Embryos Objection Fact Parkinson Stem Stem Cell Stem Cell Research Developing Come Like Because Motor Conditions Cures Disease Cell Die Cell Research Going Cells May Anyway Which Many Suffer
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. Stephen Hawking
Me Physics School Father Thought Made Chemistry Biology Jobs Would Would-Be He Because Boy Least Math Mathematicians Did Wanted Less Bright Brightest
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. Albert Einstein
Sheep Member Must Oneself Above Order Flock
The environment is everything that isn't me. Albert Einstein
Me Everything Environment
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Albert Einstein
You Problem Solve Never Which Created Level
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Me World Bitter Fact Cruel Did Childhood Full Prepare Things
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself. Stephen Hawking
Time Myself Good College Busy Too Spend Good Student Student Did Much Enjoying
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not. Stephen Hawking
Superman Everything Would Superhero Had Pick He Choose
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein
Religion Soul Righteousness Goodness Living True True Religion Real
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. Albert Einstein
Today Memory Events Colored Because Deceptive
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein
Mathematics Reality Laws Refer As Far As Far Certain
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. Albert Einstein
Life Music My Life Live Think Musician Would See Physicist Terms Were Often
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. Stephen Hawking
Physics Joy Before Research Something Winning No-One Knew Discovering Prize Intention
I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going. Stephen Hawking
Good Morning Only Never Get Any Going After Afternoon Four
What was God doing before the divine creation? Stephen Hawking
God Before Creation Divine Doing
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