682 Quotes About Physics




  • Author Jamal Nazrul Islam
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    Some people, including Hawking, think that we may be able to understand the big bang or the big crunch (in particular, whether time has a beginning or an end at these events) when we have a satisfactory quantum theory of gravitation.

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  • Author Leon M. Lederman
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    We have jerks, assholes, and those who are just dumb...dumb!""You mean relative to you others," my mother once protested."No, Mom, dumb like anyone is dumb.""So how did he get a Ph.D.?""Sitzfleisch, Mom."Sitzfleisch: the ability to sit through any task, to do it again and again until the job is somehow done. Those who give out Ph.D.'s are human too - sooner or later they give in.

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  • Author Philip Ball
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    [There is a] growing conviction that quantum mechanics is at root a theory not of tiny particles and waves but of information and its causative influence. It’s a theory of how much we can deduce about the world by looking at it, and how that depends on intimate, invisible connections between here and there.

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