682 Quotes About Physics

If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?

A precious miracle that the infinite play of combinations has unlocked for us, allowing us to exist. We may smile now. We can go back to serenely immersing ourselves in time - in our finite time - to savoring the clear intensity of every fleeting and cherished moment of the brief circle of our existence.

By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

You can only recognize the presence of light in darkness.

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.

This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?