In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable.

Frank Wilczek

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Sir Arthur Eddington

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Sir Arthur Eddington

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

Sir Arthur Eddington

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

Sir Arthur Eddington

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Stephen Hawking

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

You cannot discharge any firearms within the city limits. It's just a matter of physics: What goes up comes down, and the speed that the bullet goes up increases the rate that it comes down, and that can be dangerous.

Carl Duke

Physics is a terrible, terrible, terrible thing. It takes all of your energy, all of your time and all of your attention.

Walter W. Wada

For a lot of kids this is their first introduction to chemistry and physics concepts. By doing projects it becomes more real for them.

Robert Aochi

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here.

Peter Diamandis

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

David Hilbert

A lot of [developers] have an amazingly weak grasp of physics. We've become a much more connected world and there's a lot more to program for than Web services.

James Gosling

I've always been interested in all sorts of things. Art, physics, history, philosophy, math -- they're all interesting. Making games just seems like a way to bring all these seemingly unrelated things together.

Dan Wolfe

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.

Henry George

Handling those incoming items is a big issue. We get buried under it. The physics of clutter is that it will come into your office without your assistance, but will not go away without your assistance.

Julie Mahan

I was very advanced in physics, so I thought that something in astrophysics was where I would go ? I was thinking about NASA and stuff like that.

Brian Henson

It's one part design, two parts math. It deals with physics.

Jay Laird

Did you see that poof of dust come up when they ran by? That's how dry the ground is. The most tender part of the horse is from the knee to the hoof. The hard ground makes it harder for them to run. It's just physics.

Dick Gross

Physics and computer science help in the programming aspects of making a game. Math helps in balancing game-play and making rules and fine art is obviously helpful in just making a game look good.

Dan Wolfe

[Every laboratory experiment to] produce some of the simplest chemicals of life has completely failed, ... The information carried in DNA cannot be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry.

William Harris

Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth.

Andrew Coates

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Max Born

It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.

Richard Feynman

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

Richard Feynman

I'm kind of a dork, and I like physics.

Dennis Tarsi

There can be no negative effect (or) contamination of the lake. I base this certainty on the laws of physics and practical experience (of the use of similar techniques elsewhere).

Valery Lukin

This effectively is like an A-plus on your final exams in physics.

John Pincavage

They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics class. They're faster and stronger, so the reality is the collisions have to be bigger.

Randy Cross

There's no way we'll ever understand that. It's like explaining quantum physics to a 3-year-old.

Don Vincent

There are more computer circuits on the radio of a new car than there were computer circuits on Apollo missions. These days everything is interconnected with computers. So unless you understand physics, you're not going to be able to fix a car.

Mary Cantrell

It has to be done by hand. This goes back more to high school physics than it does to modern rigging.

Rob Howard

You can't just say, 'OK, now everybody's going to pass physics and Algebra II.

Tom Mooney

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Terry Pratchett

We couldn't experience a Katrina-like storm -- that's a matter of atmospheric physics and topography. We don't have the amount of low-lying area that we see present in the Gulf Coast.

Mariana Leckner

What people don't realize is that these cars carry up to 120 mph speeds. The laws of physics say the parts keep going when the car hits something.

Aaron Johnson

Edward Teller's genius has produced monumental contributions to physics, ... This professorship constitutes an honor that will, above all else and in perpetuity, remind us of that genius and those contributions.

Larry Vanderhoef

The margin of error is only 10 percent, so they are clearly brown dwarfs. It's Physics 101.

Keivan Stassun

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

Richard Feynman

Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Joyce Carol Oates

How can you be a physics major and be shocked when you get pregnant from having sex?

Sister Souljah

Physics makes games feel real the way graphics makes games look real.

Manju Hegde

Neutron stars are incredible laboratories for learning about the physics of the fundamental particles of nature, and this pulsar has given us an important new limit.

Scott Ransom

[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Adm James Stockdale

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David Russell

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

John Gilmore

The laws of physics don't change; we just figured out how to give us some more runway.

Margaret Lewis

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

Ken Burns

The indium arsenide self-organizes into the dots, like raindrops on a car bonnet. We found that the key was producing the dots with a high degree of symmetry, and the physics of the materials does that for us.

Andrew Shields

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.

Paul Dirac

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Michio Kaku

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

David Deutsch

Four-wheel drive, all-wheel drive ? what none of them do is transcend the laws of physics.

Tony Molla

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

Frank Wilczek

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

Edward Teller