Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael White

Tomorrow is going to be a big physics day.

David Hilbert

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

Antony Garrett Lisi

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

Elizabeth Moon

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Daniel H. Wilson

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Sherry Stringfield

Physics has the cutest words.

Lisa Randall

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

Edward Witten

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Ben Stein

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

Plato

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Pythagoras

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Voltaire

There are no sects in geometry.

Brian Greene

We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

Stephen Hawking

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Luis Walter Alvarez

When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

Chris Hall

The fluorocarbon particles are pretty small, and you don't want those sitting in your lungs.