682 Quotes About Physics

I was the assistant to Andrea Ghez, the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by the presence of virtual particles.Thus virtual particles are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised ways of measuring. Their properties and consequences are well established and well understood consequences of quantum mechanics.

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.