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366 Physicist Quotes

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

People Have time For you Always angry
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Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualize 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

Evolution Has ensured Our brains Equipped
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We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Have solved The mystery creation Should patent Universe
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The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Human race Intelligent beings The galaxy
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Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Science Is beautiful Simple explanations Phenomena
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I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Grew up Thinking Research scientist Natural thing
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

The past The future Is indefinite A spectrum
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What was God doing before the divine creation?

God doing Divine creation
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I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

I believe Things Make themselves Impossible
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I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth

I believe Alien life Quite common Intelligent life
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Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Most people Have time To master Mathematical details
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Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Time Can behave Another direction In space
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Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Throughout history People Have studied Pure science
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The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

Cyclic universe Theory Predict no Gravitational waves
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The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

The universe Not indifferent Our existence
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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Keeping An active mind Been vital My survival
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Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Science Lift people Poverty Cure disease
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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

Science Describe Nature Ourselves
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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Observe Nature Exposed Method
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The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

Reality Put Words Never
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Science clears the fields on which technology can build.

Science Fields Technology Build
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Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

Unless Stake Life Won
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Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

Never Underestimate Joy People
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It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Good Knowledge Foward Ignorance
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It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

Say Bible Laws Nature
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Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Nature Mankind Ignorance Knowledge
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Science Physics Stamp
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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

Theory Explain Good
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All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Physics Impossible Understand Trivial
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Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Comforts God Borrower Owner
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Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Truth Complicated Allow Approximations
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Stable Processes Predict Control
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Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

Life Process Abstracted Media
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Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Problems Vague terms Problems
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

People Believe Mathematics Life
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

Sense Pricise Know Talking about
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Computers are like humans - they do everything except think
Computers Human Everything Think
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Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Technological Possibilities Man Control
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Young Mathematics Understand
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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Foolish People Selfish Nature
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If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Penetrated Subject Contrast Mathematical
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Mathematics Language Primary Secondary
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There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't

God Things Easier Explain
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The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

Belief Truth Evil World
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We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

World Children Born Care
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Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Intellect Possible Reason Sensible
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Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people

Study Science Athiest People
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Science is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Science History Tradition Civilization
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Science advances one funeral at a time.

Science Funeral Time
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Ego Dictate Human Consciousness
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