682 Quotes About Physics

  • Author Henry Moseley
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    In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ... The chief result is that ... the result for any metal (is) quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shews that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

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  • Author Philip Ball
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    [T]he probabilistic nature of the Schrödinger equation, which predicts only the likelihood of different experimental outcomes, leaves it offering no reason why one specific outcome is observed instead of another. In effect, it says that quantum events (the radioactive decay of an atom, say) happen for no reason.

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  • Author Georgi Gospodinov
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    Мога да начертая географска карта с миграцията на тъгите. Едни места са тъжни в един век, други - в друг. Ако в нещо съм успявал с тези опити, то е за много кратък отрязък от време да привлека заблуден облак тъга от някой минал следобед, мой или чужд, да вървя подир него и да потъвам в никотина му. Като пушач, който и след много години без цигари винаги ще разпознае следата от дим.

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  • Author Peter Matthiessen
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    Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form…the cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of creation strikes the earth with equal intensity from all directions, which suggests either that the earth is at the center of the universe, as in our innocence we once supposed, or that the known universe has no center.

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