physics Quotes

"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground."

"I have just got a new theory of eternity."

"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

"When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it."

"The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of... ...

"Galileo is the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science."

"Gravity is a response to geometry."

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."

"There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality."