Something unknown is doing we don`t know what.
- Adrian KurreAll science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- ABC EntertainmentNot only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- Adrian KurreIt is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
- Adrian KurreI ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
- Adrian KurreIn physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who`s trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you`re hoping to convince Nature. And I`ve found Nature to be pretty reasonable.
- Abdul Hussein HindawiWe have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
- Adrian KurreFor the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure.
- Adrian KurreNature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?
- Vanna BontaPhysics isn`t a religion. If it were, we`d have a much easier time raising money.
- Ashley CrisellIf Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
- Thomas HardyThe fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.
- Fritjof CapraIn some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
- John FowlesErwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua
- Marshall McLuhanThe vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.
- Blaise PascalIn physics, you don`t have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
- Frank WilczekI think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
- Isidor Isaac RabiMatter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.
- Jean MeslierPhysics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
- Pope Paul VI