physics Quotes

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

"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... ...