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«In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.»
Author: Frank Wilczek | About: Physics | Keywords: go around, physics
«The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.»
«I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.»
Author: Isidor Isaac Rabi | About: Physics | Keywords: pans, peter, physicist, physicists
«Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.»
Author: Jean Meslier | About: Physics
«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.»
Author: John Fowles | About: Physics | Keywords: static
«Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.»
Author: Leon Lederman | About: Physics, Religion | Keywords: physics, raising
«Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.»
«Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?»
«If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.»
«Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua»