Physics Quotes

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

The wave nature of matter is not a mere mathematical artifice, but a physical reality.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not of.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

We can now say that in the case of electric waves, the velocity of propagation is equal to that of light.

The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.

It is inconceivable to me that a body should act upon another body without the intervention of some other thing.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The Foot of a Louse... is arm'd with several crooked Spines or Thorns, which serve it as Teeth to hold fast by.

The universe is not a computer. It is a mathematical structure.

The quark model was inspired by a line from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: 'Three quarks for Muster Mark!'

The most important thing in mathematics is to see the connections between different areas.

I have long since ceased to worry about the future. It is sufficient to know that the atom is there.

Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

The second law of thermodynamics holds, I think, only with a certain degree of probability.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused—but on a higher level.