A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You donâ€™t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You donâ€™t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Steve Jobs

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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

Francis Crick

Biology Physics Chemistry Fact

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Wallace Stevens

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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Jeff Bezos

Physics Princeton Specifically Study

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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

Edward Teller

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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

H. L. Mencken

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Voltaire

Speaks Understands Whom Metaphysics

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I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Edward Teller

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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

F. H. Bradley

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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Maimonides

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Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Niels Bohr

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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

Laini Taylor

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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Immanuel Kant

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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Robert M. Pirsig

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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Henry Adams

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The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

James Clerk Maxwell

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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.

Stephen Hawking

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Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Stephen Hawking

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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

Ernest Rutherford

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Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

Jesse Ventura

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You donâ€™t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You donâ€™t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Steve Jobs

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

Francis Crick

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Wallace Stevens

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Jeff Bezos

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

Edward Teller

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

H. L. Mencken

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Voltaire

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Edward Teller

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

F. H. Bradley

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Maimonides

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Niels Bohr

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

Laini Taylor

Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Robert M. Pirsig

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Henry Adams

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

James Clerk Maxwell

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.

Stephen Hawking

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Stephen Hawking

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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

Ernest Rutherford

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

Jesse Ventura

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