682 Quotes About Physics

And so self forever veils itself so not be by itself. So to love and be loved in eternal return.

Recent decades have taught us that physics is a magic window. It shows us the illusion that lies behind reality—and the reality that lies behind illusion. Its scope is immensely greater than we one realized. We are no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, or fields of force, or geometry, or even space and time. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.

The main reason we use math in physics, however, is because we can.

Existence is just a singular metaphysical paradox of pampsychist eccentricity.

The universe exists when chaos and order meets.

Where does the order came from? Well, that's easy! From the abscence of chaos. Where does the chaos came from? Well, that's easy! From the abscence of order.

By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accurate picture of the world we know and love.

The beauty of physics, its raison d’etre, is that it offers insight into why things in the universe behave the way they do. The ability to predict behavior is a big part of the power of physics, but the heart of physics would be lost if it didn’t give us a deep understanding of the hidden reality underlying what we observe.

But if anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows that he has not understood the first thing about them. - Niels Bohr